Exodus 2:20

20 He said to his daughters, "Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread."

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 When they came to Re`u'el, their father, he said, "How is it that you have returned so early today?"

19 They said, "A Mitzrian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock."

20 He said to his daughters, "Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread."

21 Moshe was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moshe Tzipporah, his daughter.

22 She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, "I have been a sojourner in a foreign land."