13. But Moses said, “Please, Lord, send someone else.”
14. The Lord became angry with Moses. He said, “Your brother Aaron, from the family of Levi, is a skilled speaker. He is already coming to meet you. And he will be happy when he sees you.
15. I will tell you what to say. Then you will tell Aaron. I will help both of you know what to say and do.
16. And Aaron will speak to the people for you. You will tell him what God says. And he will speak for you.
17. Take your walking stick with you. Use it to do the miracles.”
18. Then Moses went back to Jethro, his father-in-law. Moses said to him, “Let me go back to my people in Egypt. I want to see if they are still alive.”Jethro said to Moses, “You may go. Have a safe trip.”
19. While Moses was still in Midian, the Lord said to him, “Go back to Egypt. The men who wanted to kill you are dead now.”
20. So Moses took his wife and his sons and put them on a donkey. Then he started back to Egypt. He took with him the walking stick of God.
21. The Lord said to Moses, “When you get back to Egypt, do all the miracles. I have given you the power to do them. Show them to the king of Egypt. But I will make the king very stubborn. He will not let the people go.
22. Then say to the king: ‘This is what the Lord says: Israel is my firstborn son.
23. And I told you to let my son go. Let him go so he may worship me. But you refused to let Israel go. So I will kill your firstborn son.’”
24. As Moses was on his way to Egypt, he stopped at a resting place for the night. The Lord met him there and tried to kill him.
25. But Zipporah took a flint knife and circumcised her son. She took the skin and touched Moses’ feet with it. Then she said to him, “You are a bridegroom of blood to me.”
26. Zipporah said this because she had to circumcise her son. So the Lord did not kill Moses.
27. Meanwhile the Lord said to Aaron, “Go out into the desert to meet Moses.” When Aaron went, he met Moses at Sinai, the mountain of God, and kissed him.