Exodus 2:18
Good News Translation
When they returned to their father, he asked, "Why have you come back so early today?"

New Revised Standard Version
When they returned to their father Reuel, he said, “How is it that you have come back so soon today?”

Contemporary English Version
When Jethro's daughters returned home, their father asked, "Why have you come back so early today?"

New American Bible
When they returned to their father Reuel, he said to them, “How is it you have returned so soon today?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when they returned to Raguel their father, he said to them: Why are ye come sooner than usual?

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And when they returned to Raguel their father, he said to them: Why are ye come sooner than usual?

Exodus 3:1 Now Moses fed the sheep of Jethro, his father in law, the priest of Madian: and he drove the flock to the inner parts of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, Horeb.

Exodus 4:18 Moses went his way, and returned to Jethro his father in law, and said to him; I will go and return to my brethren into Egypt, that I may see if they be yet alive. And Jethro said to him: Go in peace.

Exodus 18:1-12 And when Jethro the priest of Madian, the kinsman of Moses, had heard all the things that God had done to Moses, and to Israel his people, and that the Lord had brought forth Israel out of Egypt: . . .

Jethro.

Numbers 19:20 If any man be not expiated after this rite, his soul shall perish out of the midst of the church: because he hath profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, and was not sprinkled with the water of purification.

Context
Moses Flees to Midian
17And the shepherds came and drove them away: and Moses arose, and defending the maids, watered their sheep. 18And when they returned to Raguel their father, he said to them: Why are ye come sooner than usual?19They answered: A man of Egypt delivered us from the hands of the shepherds: and he drew water also with us, and gave the sheep to drink.…
Cross References
Exodus 2:19
They answered: A man of Egypt delivered us from the hands of the shepherds: and he drew water also with us, and gave the sheep to drink.

Exodus 3:1
Now Moses fed the sheep of Jethro, his father in law, the priest of Madian: and he drove the flock to the inner parts of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, Horeb.

Exodus 18:1
And when Jethro the priest of Madian, the kinsman of Moses, had heard all the things that God had done to Moses, and to Israel his people, and that the Lord had brought forth Israel out of Egypt:

Numbers 10:29
And Moses said to Hobab the son of Raguel the Madianite, his kinsman: We are going towards the place which the Lord will give us: come with us, that we may do thee good: for the Lord hath promised good things to Israel.

Exodus 2:17
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