Exodus 4:21-31 ▼

21 And YHWH says to Moses, “In your going to return to Egypt, see—all the wonders which I have put in your hand—that you have done them before Pharaoh, and I strengthen his heart, and he does not send the people away;

22 and you have said to Pharaoh, Thus said YHWH: My son, My firstborn [is] Israel,

23 and I say to you, send My son away, and he serves Me; and [if] you refuse to send him away, behold, I am slaying your son, your firstborn.”

24 And it comes to pass in the way, in a lodging place, that YHWH meets him, and seeks to put him to death;

25 and Zipporah takes a flint, and cuts off the foreskin of her son, and causes [it] to touch his feet, and says, “You [are] surely a bridegroom of blood to me”;

26 and He desists from him. Then she said, “A bridegroom of blood,” in reference to the circumcision.

27 And YHWH says to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses”; and he goes, and meets him on the mountain of God, and kisses him,

28 and Moses declares to Aaron all the words of YHWH with which He has sent him, and all the signs with which He has charged him.

29 And Moses goes—Aaron also—and they gather all the elderly of the sons of Israel,

30 and Aaron speaks all the words which YHWH has spoken to Moses, and does the signs before the eyes of the people;

31 and the people believe when they hear that YHWH has looked after the sons of Israel, and that He has seen their affliction; and they bow and pay respect.