17. And take this rod in thy hand, wherewith thou shalt do the signs.
18. Moses went his way, and returned to Jethro his father in law and said to him: I will go and return to my brethren into Egypt, that I may see if they be yet alive. And Jethro said to him: Go in peace.
19. And the Lord said to Moses, in Madian: Go, and return into Egypt: for they are all dead that sought thy life.
20. Moses therefore took his wife, and his sons, and set them upon an ass: and returned into Egypt, carrying the rod of God in his hand.
21. And the Lord said to him as he was returning into Egypt: See that thou do all the wonders before Pharao, which I have put in thy hand: I shall harden his heart, and he will not let the people go.
22. And thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Israel is my son, my firstborn.
23. I have said to thee: Let my son go, that he may serve me, and thou wouldst not let him go: behold I will kill thy son, thy firstborn.
24. And when he was in his journey, in the inn, the Lord met him, and would have killed him.
25. Immediately Sephora took a very sharp stone, and circumcised the fore skin of her son, and touched his feet and said: A bloody spouse art thou to me.
26. And he let him go after she had said A bloody spouse art thou to me, because of the circumcision.
27. And the Lord said to Aaron: Go into the desert to meet Moses. And he went forth to meet him in the mountain of God, and kissed him.
28. And Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord, by which he had sent him, and the signs that he had commanded.
29. And they came together, and they assembled all the ancients of the children of Israel.
30. And Aaron spoke all the words which the Lord had said to Moses: and he wrought the signs before the people,
31. And the people believed. And they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel: and that he had looked upon their affliction: and falling down they adored.