Discovery BoxExodus 2:20 
Context2:20 He said 1 to his daughters, “So where is he? 2 Why in the world 3 did you leave the man? Call him, so that he may eat 4 a meal 5 with us.”
Exodus 29:41
Context29:41 The second lamb you are to offer around sundown; you are to prepare for it the same meal offering as for the morning and the same drink offering, for a soothing aroma, an offering made by fire to the Lord.
Exodus 40:29
Context40:29 He also put the altar for the burnt offering by the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the meal offering, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
1 tn Heb “And he said.”
2 tn The conjunction vav (ו) joins Reuel’s question to what the daughters said as logically following with the idea, “If he has done all that you say, why is he not here for me to meet?” (see GKC 485 §154.b).
3 tn This uses the demonstrative pronoun as an enclitic, for emphasis (R. J. Williams, Hebrew Syntax, 24, §118). The question reads more literally, “Why [is] this [that] you left him?”
4 tn The imperfect tense coming after the imperative indicates purpose.
5 tn Heb “bread,” i.e., “food.”
