Now on the way, at a place where they stopped for the night, the Lord met Moses and sought to kill him.

“I am going to send an angel before you to protect you as you journey and to bring you into the place that I have prepared.

Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, and I might destroy you on the way.”

Moses told his father-in-law all that the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to Egypt for Israel’s sake, and all the hardship that had come on them along the way, and how the Lord had delivered them.