23. And I say to you, Let My son go, that he may serve Me; and if you refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay your son, your firstborn.
24. Along the way at a [resting-] place, the Lord met [Moses] and sought to kill him [made him acutely and almost fatally ill].
25. [Now apparently he had failed to circumcise one of his sons, his wife being opposed to it; but seeing his life in such danger] Zipporah took a flint knife and cut off the foreskin of her son and cast it to touch [Moses'] feet, and said, Surely a husband of blood you are to me!
26. When He let [Moses] alone [to recover], Zipporah said, A husband of blood are you because of the circumcision.
27. The Lord said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mountain of God [Horeb, or Sinai] and kissed him.
28. Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord with which He had sent him, and all the signs with which He had charged him.
29. Moses and Aaron went and gathered together [in Egypt] all the elders of the Israelites.
30. Aaron spoke all the words which the Lord had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.
31. And the people believed; and when they heard that the Lord had visited the Israelites, and that He had looked [in compassion] upon their affliction, they bowed their heads and worshiped.