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Now the Lord said to Moses in Midian, "Go ^[m]back to Egypt, for ^(t)all the men who were seeking your life are dead."

So Moses took his wife and his ^(u)sons and mounted them on a donkey, and returned to the land of Egypt. Moses also took the ^(v)staff of God in his hand.

The Lord said to Moses, "When you go ^[n]back to Egypt see that you perform before Pharaoh all ^(w)the wonders which I have put in your ^[o]power; but ^(x)I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.

Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord , "^(y)Israel is My son, My firstborn.

So I said to you, ‘^(z)Let My son go that he may serve Me'; but you have refused to let him go. Behold, ^(aa)I will kill your son, your firstborn."'"

Now it came about at the lodging place on the way that the Lord met him and ^(ab)sought to put him to death.

Then Zipporah took ^(ac)a flint and cut off her son's foreskin and ^[p]threw it at Moses' feet, and she said, "You are indeed a bridegroom of blood to me."

So He let him alone. At that time she said, "You are a bridegroom of blood"—^[q]because of the circumcision.

^(ad)Now the Lord said to Aaron, "Go to meet Moses in the wilderness." So he went and met him at the ^(ae)mountain of God and kissed him.

^(af)Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord with which He had sent him, and ^(ag)all the signs that He had commanded him to do.

Then Moses and Aaron went and ^(ah)assembled all the elders of the sons of Israel;