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Exodus 2:18

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

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

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

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