Exodus 4:19-31
4:19 The
Lord said to Moses in Midian, “Go back
to Egypt, because all the men who were seeking your life are dead.”
4:20 Then Moses took
his wife and sons
and put them on a donkey and headed back
to the land of Egypt, and Moses took the staff of God in his hand.
4:21 The
Lord said
to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt,
see that you
do before Pharaoh all the wonders I have put under your control.
But I will harden
his heart
and
he will not let the people go.
4:22 You must say
to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says
the
Lord, “Israel is my son, my firstborn,
4:23 and I said to you, ‘Let my son go that he may serve
me,’ but since you have refused to let him go,
I will surely kill
your son, your firstborn!”’”
4:24 Now on the way, at a place where they stopped for the night, the Lord met Moses and sought to kill him.
4:25 But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off the foreskin of her son and touched it to Moses’ feet, and said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me.”
4:26 So the Lord let him alone. (At that time she said, “A bridegroom of blood,” referring to the circumcision.)
4:27 The Lord said to Aaron, “Go to the wilderness to meet Moses. So he went and met him at the mountain of God and greeted him with a kiss.
4:28 Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord who had sent him and all the signs that he had commanded him.
4:29 Then Moses and Aaron went and brought together all the Israelite elders.
4:30 Aaron spoke all the words that the Lord had spoken to Moses and did the signs in the sight of the people,
4:31 and the people believed. When they heard that the Lord had attended to the Israelites and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed down close to the ground.