Éxodo 2:18

18 Cuando las muchachas volvieron a la casa de Reuel, su padre, este les preguntó:—¿Por qué volvieron hoy tan temprano?

Éxodo 2:18 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 2:18

And when they came to Reuel their father
Or Ragouel, as the Septuagint; and so Artapanus ^F19 calls him. The Targum of Jonathan has it, their father's father; and so Aben Ezra says he was; and is the sense of others, induced thereto by ( Numbers 10:29 ) , but it does not follow from thence: he said,

how is it that you are come so soon today?
it being not only sooner than they were wont to come, but perhaps their business was done in so short a time; that it was marvellous to him that it could be done in it, so quick a dispatch had Moses made, and they through his assistance; and especially it might be more strange, if it was usual, as it seems it was, to be molested by the shepherds.

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 Ut supra. (Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 27. p. 434.)

Éxodo 2:18 In-Context

16 El sacerdote de Madián tenía siete hijas, las cuales solían ir a sacar agua para llenar los abrevaderos y dar de beber a las ovejas de su padre.

17 Pero los pastores llegaban y las echaban de allí. Un día, Moisés intervino en favor de ellas: las puso a salvo de los pastores y dio de beber a sus ovejas.

18 Cuando las muchachas volvieron a la casa de Reuel, su padre, este les preguntó:—¿Por qué volvieron hoy tan temprano?

19 —Porque un egipcio nos libró de los pastores —le respondieron—. ¡Hasta nos sacó el agua del pozo y dio de beber al rebaño!

20 —¿Y dónde está ese hombre? —les contestó—. ¿Por qué lo dejaron solo? ¡Invítenlo a comer!