16. He will speak for you to the people, and he will be your mouth. But you will be with him in those things that pertain to God.
17. Also, take this staff into your hand; with it you will accomplish the signs."
18. Moses went forth, and he returned to Jethro, his father in law, and he said to him, "I shall go and return to my brothers in Egypt, so that I may see if they are still alive." And Jethro said to him, "Go in peace."
19. And so the Lord said to Moses in Midian: "Go, and return to Egypt. For all those who sought your life have died."
20. Therefore, Moses took his wife and his sons, and he placed them upon a donkey, and he returned into Egypt, carrying the staff of God in his hand.
21. And the Lord said to him, as he was returning to Egypt: "See that you accomplish, in the sight of Pharaoh, all the wonders that I have placed in your hand. I will harden his heart, and he will not release the people.
22. And you shall say to him: 'Thus says the Lord: Israel is my firstborn son.
23. I have said to you: Release my son, so that he may serve me. And you were not willing to release him. Behold, I will put to death your firstborn son.' "
24. And while he was on the journey, at an inn, the Lord met him, and he was willing to kill him.
25. For this reason, Zipporah took a very sharp stone, and she circumcised the foreskin of her son, and she touched his feet, and she said, "You are a bloody spouse to me."
26. And he released him, after she had said, "You are a bloody spouse," because of the circumcision.
27. Then the Lord said to Aaron, "Go into the desert to meet Moses." And he went directly to meet him on the mountain of God, and he kissed him.
28. And Moses explained to Aaron all the words of the Lord, by which he had sent him, and the signs which he had commanded.