18Moses went and returned to Jether his relative. He said to him, "Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, so that I may see whether they are still alive." Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace."19The LORD said to Moses in Midian, "Go; return to Egypt, for all the men who sought your life have died."20Moses took his wife and his sons and set them on the donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moses also took the rod of God in his hand.21The LORD said to Moses, "When you go to return to Egypt, see all the wonders that I have placed in your hand, and do them before Pharaoh; yet I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go."22You shall say to Pharaoh, "Thus says the LORD: Israel is my son, my firstborn."23I said to you, "Let my son go that he may serve me," but you refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn.24It happened on the way at the lodging place that the LORD met him and sought to kill him.25Zipporah took a flint and cut off the foreskin of her son and touched his feet and said, "You are a son-in-law of blood to me."26So he let him alone. Then she said, "A son-in-law of blood," because of the circumcision.27The LORD said to Aaron, "Go to meet Moses in the wilderness." So he went and met him at the mountain of God and kissed him.28Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD that he had sent him to speak, and all the signs that he had commanded him to perform.29Moses and Aaron went and assembled all the elders of the sons of Israel.30Aaron spoke all the words that the LORD had spoken to Moses and performed the signs in the sight of the people.31The people believed. When they heard that the LORD had taken note of the sons of Israel and had seen their affliction, they bowed down and worshiped.