Exodus 2:18
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New International Version (©1984)
When the girls returned to Reuel their father, he asked them, "Why have you returned so early today?"

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
When they came to Reuel their father, he said, "Why have you come back so soon today?"

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
When they came back to their father Reuel, he asked them, "Why have you come home so early today?"

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

American King James Version
And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that you are come so soon to day?

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

Bible in Basic English
And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that you have come back so quickly today?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when they returned to Raguel their father, he said to them: Why are ye come sooner than usual?

Darby Bible Translation
And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, Why are ye come so soon to-day?

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

Webster's Bible Translation
And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that you are come so soon to day?

World English Bible
When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, "How is it that you have returned so early today?"

Young's Literal Translation
And they come in to Reuel their father, and he saith, 'Wherefore have ye hastened to come in to-day?'

Geneva Study Bible

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

Wesley's Notes

2:18 Reul or Raguel (see Num 10:29,) seems to have been their grandfather and father of Hobab or Jethro, their immediate father.

King James Translators' Notes

Reuel: called also Jethro, or, Jether

Scofield Reference Notes

Margin Reuel

Called Raguel. Num 10:29.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

2:16-22 Moses found shelter in Midian. He was ready to help Reuel's daughters to water their flocks, although bred in learning and at court. Moses loved to be doing justice, and to act in defence of such as he saw injured, which every man ought to do, as far as it is in his power. He loved to be doing good; wherever the providence of God casts us, we should desire and try to be useful; and when we cannot do the good we would, we must be ready to do the good we can. Moses commended himself to the prince of Midian; who married one of his daughters to Moses, by whom he had a son, called Gershom, a stranger there, that he might keep in remembrance the land in which he had been a stranger.


Exodus 3:1 Now Moses was pasturing the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
Numbers 10:29 Then Moses said to Hobab the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, "We are setting out to the place of which the LORD said, 'I will give it to you'; come with us and we will do you good, for the LORD has promised good concerning Israel." (NASB ©1995)

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

3:1 4:18 18:1-12

Jethro. or Jether. Nu 19:20

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