^{21 Ref} Yahweh said to Moses, "When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.

^{22 Ref} You shall tell Pharaoh, 'Thus says Yahweh, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

^{23 Ref} and I have said to you, "Let my son go, that he may serve me;" and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn.'"

^{24 Ref} It happened on the way at a lodging place, that Yahweh met him and wanted to kill him.

^{25 Ref} Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me."

²⁶ So he let him alone. Then she said, "You are a bridegroom of blood," because of the circumcision.

^{27 Ref} Yahweh said to Aaron, "Go into the wilderness to meet Moses." He went, and met him on God's mountain, and kissed him.

^{28 Ref} Moses told Aaron all the words of Yahweh with which he had sent him, and all the signs with which he had charged him.

^{29 Ref} Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel.

^{30 Ref} Aaron spoke all the words which Yahweh had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.

^{31 Ref} The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.