New American Standard Bible 2020

Exodus 4:20-26

20So Moses took his wife and his 1sons and mounted them on a donkey, and returned to the land of Egypt. Moses also took the 2staff of God in his hand.

21And the Lord said to Moses, “When you go 3back to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all 4the wonders which I have put in your 5power; but 6I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go. 22Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘This is what the Lord says: “7Israel is My son, My firstborn. 23So I said to you, ‘8Let My son go so that he may serve Me’; but you have refused to let him go. Behold, 9I am going to kill your son, your firstborn.”’”

24But it came about at the overnight encampment on the way, that the Lord met 10Moses, and 11sought to put him to death. 25So Zipporah took 12a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and 13threw it at Moses’ feet; and she said, “You are indeed a groom of blood to me!” 26So He left him alone. At that time she said, “You are a groom of blood”--14because of the circumcision.

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Notes

1. Exodus 4:20 Ex 18:3, 4; Acts 7:29 ↩
2. Exodus 4:20 Ex 4:17; 17:9; Num 20:8, 9, 11 ↩
3. Exodus 4:21 Lit to return ↩
4. Exodus 4:21 Ex 3:20; 11:9, 10 ↩
5. Exodus 4:21 Lit hand ↩
6. Exodus 4:21 Ex 7:3, 13; 9:12, 35; 10:1, 20, 27; 14:4, 8; Deut 2:30; Josh 11:20; 1 Sam 6:6; Is 63:17; John 12:40; Rom 9:18 ↩
7. Exodus 4:22 Is 63:16; 64:8; Jer 31:9; Hos 11:1; Rom 9:4 ↩
8. Exodus 4:23 Ex 5:1; 6:11; 7:16 ↩
9. Exodus 4:23 Ex 11:5; 12:29; Ps 105:36; 135:8; 136:10 ↩
10. Exodus 4:24 Lit him ↩
11. Exodus 4:24 Num 22:22 ↩
12. Exodus 4:25 Gen 17:14; Josh 5:2, 3 ↩
13. Exodus 4:25 Lit made it touch at his feet ↩
14. Exodus 4:26 Lit with reference to ↩

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