Exodus 2:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ When they returned to their father Reuel, he said, “How is it that you have come back so soon today?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ And when they came to Reuel [Jethro] their father, he said, How is it that you have come so soon today?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to-day?

Common English Bible

¹⁸ When they went back home to their father Reuel, he asked, “How were you able to come back home so soon today?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ And when they had returned to their father, Reuel, he said to them, "Why have you arrived sooner than usual?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ And when they returned to Raguel their father, he said to them: Why are ye come sooner than usual?

Exodus 2:18 Cross References

Exodus 2:19

They said, “An Egyptian helped us against the shepherds; he even drew water for us and watered the flock.”

Exodus 3:1

Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the wilderness and came to Mount Horeb, the mountain of God.

Exodus 4:18

Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, “Please let me go back to my own people in Egypt and see whether they are still living.” And Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”

Numbers 10:29

Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’s father-in-law, “We are setting out for the place of 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 to Israel.”

Numbers 19:20

Any who are unclean but do not purify themselves, those persons shall be cut off from the assembly, for they have defiled the sanctuary of the Lord. Since the water for cleansing has not been dashed on them, they are unclean.

John 9:12

They said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.”