Exodus 4:19-31 ▼

19 And YHWH said to Moses in Midian, “Go, return to Egypt, for all the men who were seeking your life are dead.”

20 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and he set them on the donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the staff of God in his hand.

21 And YHWH said to Moses, “When you go to return to Egypt, see all the wonders that I have put in your hand, and you do them before the face of Pharaoh. And I will strengthen his heart, and he will not send out. the people

22 And you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says YHWH: My son, My firstborn is Israel.

23 And I say to you, send out My son, that he may serve Me. And if you refuse to send him out, behold, I am killing your son, your firstborn.’”

24 And it came to pass on the way, at the lodging place, that YHWH met him and sought to put him to death.

25 And Zipporah took a sharp stone and cut off the foreskin of her son, and she touched it to his feet and said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me.”

26 And He let him alone. (At that time she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision.)

27 And YHWH said to Aaron, “Go to meet Moses in the wilderness.” And he went, and he met him on the mountain of God, and he kissed him.

28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of YHWH with which He had sent him, and all the signs which He had commanded him.

29 And Moses went—and Aaron—and they gathered together all the elders of the sons of Israel.

30 And Aaron spoke all the words that YHWH had spoken to Moses. And he did the signs before the eyes of the people,

31 and the people believed; and they heard that YHWH had visited the sons of Israel, and that He had seen their affliction. And they bowed and worshiped.