Exodus 2:20

20 at ille ubi est inquit quare dimisistis hominem vocate eum ut comedat panem

Exodus 2:20 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 2:20

And he said unto his daughters, and where is he?
&c.] By the account Reuel's daughters gave of Moses, of his courage and humanity, he was very desirous of seeing him:

why [is it] that ye have left the man?
behind them at the well, and had not brought him along with them; he seemed to be displeased, and chides them, and tacitly suggests that they were rude and ungrateful not to ask a stranger, and one that had been so kind to them, to come with them and refresh himself:

call him, that he may eat bread;
take meat with them, bread being put for all provisions.

Exodus 2:20 In-Context

18 quae cum revertissent ad Raguhel patrem suum dixit ad eas cur velocius venistis solito

19 responderunt vir aegyptius liberavit nos de manu pastorum insuper et hausit aquam nobiscum potumque dedit ovibus

20 at ille ubi est inquit quare dimisistis hominem vocate eum ut comedat panem

21 iuravit ergo Moses quod habitaret cum eo accepitque Sefforam filiam eius

22 quae peperit filium quem vocavit Gersam dicens advena fui in terra aliena