16. He will be your spokesman to the people, so that he may act as a mouthpiece for you, and it will be as if you were as God for him.
17. Now then, you must take this staff in your hand to do the signs.”
18. So Moses went, returned to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, “Please let me go, so I may return to my kinsmen who are in Egypt and see whether they are still alive.” Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”
19. Then Adonai said to Moses in Midian, “Go, return to Egypt, for all the men that sought your life are dead.”
20. So Moses took his wife and his sons, set them on a donkey and returned to the land of Egypt. Moses took the staff of God in his hand.
21. Adonai said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you do all the wonders before Pharaoh that I have put in your hand. Still, I will harden his heart, and he will not let the people go.
22. You are to say to Pharaoh, “This is what Adonai says: ‘Israel is My son, My firstborn.
23. So I have said to you, Let My son go, that he may serve Me, but you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will slay your son, your firstborn.’”
24. It happened along the way, at a lodging place, that Adonai met him and sought to kill him!
25. But Zipporah took a flint, cut off the foreskin of her son, and threw it at his feet, saying, “You are surely a bridegroom of blood to me.”
26. She said, “A bridegroom of blood” because of the circumcision. Then He let him alone.
27. Now Adonai said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.” So he went and met him at the mountain of God, and kissed him.