Exodus 4:17-19

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹⁷ Take in your hand this staff, with which you shall perform the signs.’

Moses Returns to Egypt

¹⁸ Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, ‘Please let me go back to my kindred in Egypt and see whether they are still living.’ And Jethro said to Moses, ‘Go in peace.’ ¹⁹ The Lord said to Moses in Midian, ‘Go back to Egypt; for all those who were seeking your life are dead.’