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17 Take this staff in your hand, and use it to perform the signs I have shown you.

18 Barely convinced, Moses went back to his father-in-law, Jethro.

Moses (to Jethro): Please let me leave now, so that I can go back to my Hebrew brothers and sisters in Egypt and find out if they are still alive.

Jethro: You may go now with my blessing and peace.

19 The Eternal spoke to Moses while he was still in Midian.

Eternal One: Go back to Egypt. I assure you, all the men who wanted to kill you are no longer alive.

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17 But take this staff(A) in your hand(B) so you can perform the signs(C) with it.”

Moses Returns to Egypt

18 Then Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, “Let me return to my own people in Egypt to see if any of them are still alive.”

Jethro said, “Go, and I wish you well.”

19 Now the Lord had said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all those who wanted to kill(D) you are dead.(E)

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