11. The Lord said to him, “Who gave a mouth to man, or who makes a person mute or deaf or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?
12. So now go, and I will be with your mouth and will teach you what you must say.”
13. But Moses said, “O my Lord, please send anyone else whom you wish to send!”
14. Then the Lord became angry with Moses, and he said, “What about your brother Aaron the Levite? I know that he can speak very well. Moreover, he is coming to meet you, and when he sees you he will be glad in his heart.
15. “So you are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth. And as for me, I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you both what you must do.
16. He will speak for you to the people, and it will be as if he were your mouth and as if you were his God.
17. You will also take in your hand this staff, with which you will do the signs.”
18. So Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, “Let me go, so that I may return to my relatives in Egypt and see if they are still alive.” Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”
19. The Lord said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, because all the men who were seeking your life are dead.”
20. Then Moses took his wife and sons and put them on a donkey and headed back to the land of Egypt, and Moses took the staff of God in his hand.
21. The Lord said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders I have put under your control. But I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.
22. You must say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Israel is my son, my firstborn,
23. and I said to you, ‘Let my son go that he may serve me,’ but since you have refused to let him go, I will surely kill your son, your firstborn!”’”
24. Now on the way, at a place where they stopped for the night, the Lord met Moses and sought to kill him.