20. Moses took his wife and his sons and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the rod of God in his hand.
21. The Lord said to Moses, “When you go to return into Egypt, see that you do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart, so that he shall not let the people go.
22. You shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord: Israel is My son, even My firstborn.
23. So I say to you, “Let My son go, that he may serve Me. And if you refuse to let him go, I will slay your son, even your firstborn.” ’ ”
24. At a lodging place on the way, the Lord met him and sought to kill him.
25. Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and threw it at his feet, and said, “Surely a bloody husband are you to me.”
26. So He let him go. Then she said, “A bloody husband you are, because of the circumcision.”
27. Now the Lord said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.” So he went, and met him at the mount of God, and kissed him.
28. Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord who had sent him, and all the signs which He had commanded him.
29. Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel.
30. And Aaron spoke all the words which the Lord had spoken to Moses and did the signs in the sight of the people.
31. And the people believed. And when they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel and that He had looked on their affliction, they bowed down and worshipped.