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Exodus 2:18

When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, “How is it that you have returned so early today?”

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In The King James Version

And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day?

In Context

17The shepherds came and divorced them away; but Moses [Drawn out] stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

19They said, “An Egyptian [person from Abode of slavery] delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock.”

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Cross References

Exodus 3:1Now Moses [Drawn out] was keeping the flock of Jethro [Abundance], his father-in-law, the priest of Midian [Strife], and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God’s mountain, to Horeb [Desert].

Exodus 18:1Now Jethro [Abundance], the priest of Midian [Strife], Moses [Drawn out]’ father-in-law, sh'ma ·heard obeyed· of all that God had done for Moses [Drawn out], and for Israel [God prevails] his people, how that Adonai had brought Israel [God prevails] out of Egypt [Abode of slavery].

Numbers 19:20But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not cleanse sin ·err (the standard goal)· from himself, that soul shall be cut off from the middle of the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of Adonai. The water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him. He is unclean.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 2:17-23

The Marriage of Moses. ( b. c. 1533.) 16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. 17 And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock. 18 And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day? 19 And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock. 20 And… Read the whole commentary →

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