Exodus 2:18
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New International Version (©2011)
When the girls returned to Reuel their father, he asked them, "Why have you returned so early today?"

New Living Translation (©2007)
When the girls returned to Reuel, their father, he asked, "Why are you back so soon today?"

English Standard Version (©2001)
When they came home to their father Reuel, he said, “How is it that you have come home so soon today?”

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

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
When they returned to their father Reuel he asked, "Why have you come back so quickly today?"

International Standard Version (©2012)
When they returned to their father Reuel, he asked, "Why have you returned so quickly today?"

NET Bible (©2006)
So when they came home to their father Reuel, he asked, "Why have you come home so early 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 2000 Bible (©2003)
And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that you are come so soon today?

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?

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?'

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.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 18. - Reuel their father. Reuel is called "Raguel" in Numbers 10:29, but the Hebrew spelling is the same in both places. The word means "friend of God," and implies monotheisim. Compare Exodus 18:9-12.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And when they came to Reuel their father,.... Or Ragouel, as the Septuagint; and so Artapanus (s) 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.

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

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Moses Flees to Midian
…17And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock. 18And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that you are come so soon to day? 19And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock. …

Exodus 2:19 They answered, "An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock."
Exodus 3:1 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
Exodus 18:1 Now Jethro, the priest of Midian and father-in-law of Moses, heard of everything God had done for Moses and for his people Israel, and how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.
Numbers 10:29 Now Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, "We are setting out for the place about which the LORD said, 'I will give it to you.' Come with us and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things to Israel."