Exodus 4:15-31

Legacy Standard Bible

¹⁵ And you are to speak to him and ^(A)put the words in his mouth; and I, even I, will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will instruct ^[a]you in what you shall do. ¹⁶ Moreover, ^(B)he shall speak for you to the people; and he will become as a mouth for you, and you will become as God to him. ¹⁷ And you shall take in your hand ^(C)this staff, ^(D)with which you shall do the signs.”

Moses Returns to Egypt

¹⁸ Then Moses went and returned to ^[b]Jethro ^(E)his father-in-law and said to him, “Please, let me go, that I may return to my brothers who are in Egypt and see if they are still alive.” And Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.” ¹⁹ And Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, “Go, return to Egypt, for ^(F)all the men who were seeking your life are dead.” ²⁰ So Moses took his wife and his ^(G)sons and mounted them on a donkey and returned to the land of Egypt. Moses also took the ^(H)staff of God in his hand.

²¹ And Yahweh said to Moses, “When you go to return to Egypt, see to it that all ^(I)the miraculous wonders which I have put in your hand, that you do them before Pharaoh; but as for Me, ^(J)I will ^[c]harden his heart with strength so that he will not let the people go. ²² Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “^(K)Israel is My son, My firstborn. ²³ So I said to you, ‘^(L)Let My son go that he may serve Me’; but you have refused to let him go. Behold, ^(M)I will kill your son, your firstborn.”’”

²⁴ Now it happened at the lodging place on the way that Yahweh encountered him and ^(N)sought to put him to death. ²⁵ Then Zipporah took ^(O)a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and touched ^[d]his feet with it, and she said, “You are indeed a bridegroom of blood to me!” ²⁶ So He let him alone. At that time she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood” with reference to the circumcision.

^27 (P)Then Yahweh said to Aaron, “Go to meet Moses in the wilderness.” So he went and encountered him at the ^(Q)mountain of God and kissed him. ^28 (R)And Moses told Aaron all the words of Yahweh with which He had sent him, and ^(S)all the signs that He had commanded him to do. ²⁹ Then Moses and Aaron went and ^(T)gathered all the elders of the sons of Israel; ³⁰ and ^(U)Aaron spoke all the words which Yahweh had spoken to Moses. He then did the ^(V)signs in the sight of the people. ³¹ So ^(W)the people believed; and they heard that Yahweh ^[e](X)cared about the sons of Israel and that He had seen their affliction. So ^(Y)they bowed low and worshiped.