Genesis 4:18-31
Then
Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro. Moses said to him, "Please
let me go back to my own
people in Egypt. I would like to see if they''re still
alive." Jethro said to Moses, "You may go." Now, the Lord had said to Moses in Midian,
"Go back to Egypt, because all the men who wanted to
kill you are
dead." So Moses took his wife and
sons, put them on a donkey, and started out for Egypt. He also brought with him
the staff God had told him to take. The
Lord said to Moses, "When you get back to Egypt, see that you show Pharaoh
all the amazing things that I have given you the power to do. But I will make
him stubborn so that he will not let the people go. Then
tell Pharaoh, ''This is what the Lord says: Israel is my firstborn son. I told you to let my son go so that he may
worship me. But you refused to let him go. So now I''m going to kill your
firstborn son.''"
Along
the way they stopped for the night. The Lord met Moses and tried to kill him. Then Zipporah took a flint knife, cut
off her son''s foreskin, and touched Moses'' feet with it. She said, "You
are a bridegroom of blood to me!" So
the Lord let him alone. It was because of the circumcision that she said at
that time, "You are a bridegroom of blood!" Meanwhile,
the Lord had told Aaron to meet Moses in the desert. When Aaron met Moses at
the mountain of God, he kissed him. Moses
told Aaron everything the Lord had sent him to say and all the miraculous signs
the Lord had commanded him to do. Then
Moses and Aaron went
and assembled all the leaders of the people of
Israel. Aaron told them everything the
Lord had said to Moses. He also did the miraculous signs for the people, and the people believed them. When they heard
that the Lord was concerned about the people of Israel and that he had seen
their misery, they knelt, bowing with their faces touching the ground.