Exodus 4:17-19

GOD’S WORD Translation

¹⁷ Take that shepherd’s staff with you, and use it to do the miraculous signs.”

Moses Returns to Egypt

¹⁸ Then Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro. Moses said to him, “Please let me go back to my own people in Egypt. I would like to see if they’re still alive.”

Jethro said to Moses, “You may go.”

¹⁹ Now, the Lord had said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, because all the men who wanted to kill you are dead.”