Episode 25: God tries to kill Moses

(Exodus 4:19-31)

Moses returns to Egypt

4 ¹⁹ God said to Moses,

Go back to Egypt. Everyone who was trying to kill you is now dead.

²⁰ So Moses put his wife and sons on a donkey, and returned to Egypt, carrying God's rod in his hand.

²¹ God said to Moses,

When you get to Egypt, do all the wonders that I taught you in front of the Pharaoh.

I'll harden his heart, so he won't let the people go.

²² Say to him:

God said, "Israel is my firstborn son. ²³ If you refuse to let him go, I'll kill your firstborn son."

God tries to kill Moses

²⁴ One night while they were traveling to Egypt, God tried to kill Moses.

²⁵ But his wife, Zipporah, took a sharp stone, cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet.

²⁶ So God let him go.

Zipporah said to Moses, "You're a bloody husband because of the circumcision."

Moses and Aaron speak to the Israelites

²⁷ God said to Aaron,

Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.

So Aaron met Moses on the mountain of God and kissed him.

²⁸ Moses taught Aaron all of the signs that God taught him.

²⁹ Moses and Aaron met with the Hebrew elders and showed them all of God's magic tricks. ³¹ And the people believed.