4 ¹⁸ Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, "Let me go back, I pray, to my kinsmen in Egypt and see whether they are still alive." And Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace." 4 ¹⁹ And Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, "Go back to Egypt; for all the men who were seeking your life are dead." 4 ²⁰ So Moses took his wife and his sons and set them on an ass, and went back to the land of Egypt; and in his hand Moses took the rod of God. 4 ²¹ And Yahweh said to Moses, "When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the miracles which I have put in your power; but I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go. 4 ²² And you shall say to Pharaoh, 'Thus says Yahweh, Israel is my first-born son, 4 ²³ and I say to you, "Let my son go that he may serve me"; if you refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay your first-born son.' "

4 ²⁴ At a lodging place on the way Yahweh met him and sought to kill him. 4 ²⁵ 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!" 4 ²⁶ So he let him alone. Then it was that she said, "You are a bridegroom of blood," because of the circumcision.

4 ²⁷ Yahweh said to Aaron, "Go into the wilderness to meet Moses." So he went, and met him at the mountain of God and kissed him. 4 ²⁸ And Moses told Aaron all the words of Yahweh with which he had sent him, and all the signs which he had charged him to do. 4 ²⁹ Then Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the people of Israel. 4 ³⁰ And Aaron spoke all the words which Yahweh had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people. 4 ³¹ And the people believed; and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the people of Israel and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed their heads and worshipped.