4:10 Then Moses said to the Lord, 5 “O 6 my Lord, 7 I am not an eloquent man, 8 neither in the past 9 nor since you have spoken to your servant, for I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.” 10
4:11 The Lord said to him, “Who gave 11 a mouth to man, or who makes a person mute or deaf or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord? 12 4:12 So now go, and I will be with your mouth 13 and will teach you 14 what you must say.” 15
4:13 But Moses said, 16 “O 17 my Lord, please send anyone else whom you wish to send!” 18
4:14 Then the Lord became angry with 19 Moses, and he said, “What about 20 your brother Aaron the Levite? 21 I know that he can speak very well. 22 Moreover, he is coming 23 to meet you, and when he sees you he will be glad in his heart. 24
4:15 “So you are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth. And as for me, I will be with your mouth 25 and with his mouth, 26 and I will teach you both 27 what you must do. 28 4:16 He 29 will speak for you to the people, and it will be as if 30 he 31 were your mouth 32 and as if you were his God. 33 4:17 You will also take in your hand this staff, with which you will do the signs.” 34
4:18 35 So Moses went back 36 to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, “Let me go, so that I may return 37 to my relatives 38 in Egypt and see 39 if they are still alive.” Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.” 4:19 The Lord said to Moses in Midian, “Go back 40 to Egypt, because all the men who were seeking your life are dead.” 41 4:20 Then Moses took 42 his wife and sons 43 and put them on a donkey and headed back 44 to the land of Egypt, and Moses took the staff of God in his hand. 4:21 The Lord said 45 to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, 46 see that you 47 do before Pharaoh all the wonders I have put under your control. 48 But I will harden 49 his heart 50 and 51 he will not let the people go. 4:22 You must say 52 to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says 53 the Lord, “Israel is my son, my firstborn, 54 4:23 and I said to you, ‘Let my son go that he may serve 55 me,’ but since you have refused to let him go, 56 I will surely kill 57 your son, your firstborn!”’”
4:24 Now on the way, at a place where they stopped for the night, 58 the Lord met Moses and sought to kill him. 59 4:25 But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off the foreskin of her son and touched it to Moses’ feet, 60 and said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood 61 to me.” 4:26 So the Lord 62 let him alone. (At that time 63 she said, “A bridegroom of blood,” referring to 64 the circumcision.)
4:27 The Lord said 65 to Aaron, “Go to the wilderness to meet Moses. So he went and met him at the mountain of God 66 and greeted him with a kiss. 67 4:28 Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord who had 68 sent him and all the signs that he had commanded him. 4:29 Then Moses and Aaron went and brought together all the Israelite elders. 69 4:30 Aaron spoke 70 all the words that the Lord had spoken to Moses and did the signs in the sight of the people, 4:31 and the people believed. When they heard 71 that the Lord had attended to 72 the Israelites and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed down close to the ground. 73