Exodus 4:10-31

New King James Version

¹⁰ Then Moses said to the Lord, “O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before nor since You have spoken to Your servant; but ^(A)I am slow of speech and ^[a]slow of tongue.”

¹¹ So the Lord said to him, ^(B)“Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes the mute, the deaf, the seeing, or the blind? Have not I, the Lord? ¹² Now therefore, go, and I will be ^(C)with your mouth and teach you what you shall say.”

¹³ But he said, “O my Lord, ^(D)please send by the hand of whomever else You may send.”

¹⁴ So ^(E)the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and He said: “Is not Aaron the Levite your ^(F)brother? I know that he can speak well. And look, ^(G)he is also coming out to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart. ¹⁵ Now ^(H)you shall speak to him and ^(I)put the words in his mouth. And I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and ^(J)I will teach you what you shall do. ¹⁶ So he shall be your spokesman to the people. And he himself shall be as a mouth for you, and ^(K)you shall be to him as God. ¹⁷ And you shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs.”

Moses Goes to Egypt

¹⁸ So Moses went and returned to ^(L)Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, “Please let me go and return to my brethren who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive.”

And Jethro said to Moses, ^(M)“Go in peace.”

¹⁹ Now the Lord said to Moses in ^(N)Midian, “Go, return to ^(O)Egypt; for all the men who ^(P)sought your life are dead.” ²⁰ Then Moses ^(Q)took his wife and his sons and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took ^(R)the rod of God in his hand.

²¹ And the Lord said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you do all those ^(S)wonders before Pharaoh which I have put in your hand. But ^(T)I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go. ²² Then you shall ^(U)say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord: ^(V)“Israel is My son, ^(W)My firstborn. ²³ So I say to you, let My son go that he may serve Me. But if you refuse to let him go, indeed ^(X)I will kill your son, your firstborn.” ’ ”

²⁴ And it came to pass on the way, at the ^(Y)encampment, that the Lord ^(Z)met him and sought to ^(AA)kill him. ²⁵ Then ^(AB)Zipporah took ^(AC)a sharp stone and cut off the foreskin of her son and ^[b]cast it at ^[c]Moses’ feet, and said, “Surely you are a husband of blood to me!” ²⁶ So He let him go. Then she said, “You are a ^[d]husband of blood!”—because of the circumcision.

²⁷ And the Lord said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness ^(AD)to meet Moses.” So he went and met him on ^(AE)the mountain of God, and kissed him. ²⁸ So Moses ^(AF)told Aaron all the words of the Lord who had sent him, and all the ^(AG)signs which He had commanded him. ²⁹ Then Moses and Aaron ^(AH)went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel. ^30 (AI)And Aaron spoke all the words which the Lord had spoken to Moses. Then he did the signs in the sight of the people. ³¹ So the people ^(AJ)believed; and when they heard that the Lord had ^(AK)visited the children of Israel and that He ^(AL)had looked on their affliction, then ^(AM)they bowed their heads and worshiped.