John Gill's Exposition on Exodus 2:18

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And when they came to Reuel their father, etc.] Or Ragouel, as the Septuagint; and so Artapanus f91 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 (<041029>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.

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