Moses Returns to Egypt

¹⁸ Then Moses went and returned to ^[a]Jethro ^(A)his father-in-law and said to him, “Please, let me go, that I may return to my brothers who are in Egypt and see if they are still alive.” And Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.” ¹⁹ And Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, “Go, return to Egypt, for ^(B)all the men who were seeking your life are dead.” ²⁰ So Moses took his wife and his ^(C)sons and mounted them on a donkey and returned to the land of Egypt. Moses also took the ^(D)staff of God in his hand.

²¹ And Yahweh said to Moses, “When you go to return to Egypt, see to it that all ^(E)the miraculous wonders which I have put in your hand, that you do them before Pharaoh; but as for Me, ^(F)I will ^[b]harden his heart with strength so that he will not let the people go. ²² Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “^(G)Israel is My son, My firstborn. ²³ So I said to you, ‘^(H)Let My son go that he may serve Me’; but you have refused to let him go. Behold, ^(I)I will kill your son, your firstborn.”’”

²⁴ Now it happened at the lodging place on the way that Yahweh encountered him and ^(J)sought to put him to death. ²⁵ Then Zipporah took ^(K)a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and touched ^[c]his feet with it, and she said, “You are indeed a bridegroom of blood to me!” ²⁶ So He let him alone. At that time she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood” with reference to the circumcision.

^27 (L)Then Yahweh said to Aaron, “Go to meet Moses in the wilderness.” So he went and encountered him at the ^(M)mountain of God and kissed him. ^28 (N)And Moses told Aaron all the words of Yahweh with which He had sent him, and ^(O)all the signs that He had commanded him to do.