Moses Returns to Egypt
Moses went
back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, “Please let me go back to my
brothers in Egypt to see whether they are still alive.” And Jethro said to
Moses, “Go in peace.” And the LORD said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt,
for all the men who were seeking your life are dead.” So Moses took his wife
and his sons and had them ride on a donkey, and went back to the land of Egypt.
And Moses took the staff of God in his hand.
And the
LORD said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh
all the miracles that I have put in your power. But I will harden his heart, so
that he will not let the people go. Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says
the LORD, Israel is my firstborn son, and I say to you, “Let my son go that he
may serve me.” If you refuse to let him go, behold, I will kill your firstborn
son.’
At a
lodging place on the way the LORD met him and sought to put him to death. Then
Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet
with it and said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!” So he let him
alone. It was then that she said, “A bridegroom of blood,” because of the
circumcision.
The LORD
said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.” So he went and met him
at the mountain of God and kissed him. And Moses told Aaron all the words of
the LORD with which he had sent him to speak, and all the signs that he had
commanded him to do. Then Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the
elders of the people of Israel. Aaron spoke all the words that the LORD had
spoken to Moses and did the signs in the sight of the people. And the people
believed; and when they heard that the LORD had visited the people of Israel
and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed their heads and worshiped.
(ESV)
This reading is taken from 30
Scripture Readings on Great Women from the Bible. The complete book can be
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