Matthew Poole and continuators on Exodus 4:20

20 And Moses took his wife, and his sons , and set them upon an Asse , and he returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the rod of God in his hand.

Gershom, Exod. 2. 22. and Eliezer, Exod. 18. 4. Whom he intended to carry with him, but afterwards observing that they were like to be impediments to him in his great business, and being well assured that it would not be long ere he returned to them, he sent them back to Iethro, as may seem from Exod. 18. 5.

One Asse might be sufficient for her and her two Children, because one of them was but little, ver. 25. Or, Asse may be put for Asses, which changes of the numbers is very frequent in Scripture.

His Shepherds rod so called, partly because it was appropriated to Gods special service, to be the instrument in all his glorious works; and partly to shew that whatsoever was done by that rod was not done by any vertue in the rod or in Moses his hand, but meerly by the power of God, who was pleased for the greater confusion of his Enemies to use so mean an instrument.