18 And when they came to Reuel [1] their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day?

Other Translations of Exodus 2:18

New International Version

18 When the girls returned to Reuel their father, he asked them, "Why have you returned so early today?"

English Standard Version

18 When they came home to their father Reuel, he said, "How is it that you have come home so soon today?"

The Message

18 When they got home to their father, Reuel, he said, "That didn't take long. Why are you back so soon?"

New King James Version

18 When they came to Reuel their father, he said, "How is it that you have come so soon today?"

New Living Translation

18 When the girls returned to Reuel, their father, he asked, "Why are you back so soon today?"

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Exodus 2:18

Commentary on Exodus 2:16-22

(Read Exodus 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.