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.
29. And they arrived at the same time, and they gathered together all the elders of the sons of Israel.
30. And Aaron spoke all the words which the Lord had said to Moses. And he accomplished the signs in the sight of the people,
31. and the people believed. And they heard that the Lord had visited the sons of Israel, and that he had looked with favor upon their affliction. And falling prostrate, they worshiped.