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.