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Exodus 4
²⁴ On the way to Egypt, at a place where Moses and his family had stopped for the night, the LORD confronted him and was about to kill him.
²⁵ But Moses’ wife, Zipporah, took a flint knife and circumcised her son. She touched his feet with the foreskin and said, “Now you are a bridegroom of blood to me.”
²⁶ (When she said “a bridegroom of blood,” she was referring to the circumcision.) After that, the LORD left him alone.
²⁷ Now the LORD had said to Aaron, “Go out into the wilderness to meet Moses.” So Aaron went and met Moses at the mountain of God, and he embraced him.
²⁸ Moses then told Aaron everything the LORD had commanded him to say. And he told him about the miraculous signs the LORD had commanded him to perform.
²⁹ Then Moses and Aaron returned to Egypt and called all the elders of Israel together.
³⁰ Aaron told them everything the LORD had told Moses, and Moses performed the miraculous signs as they watched.
³¹ Then the people of Israel were convinced that the LORD had sent Moses and Aaron. When they heard that the LORD was concerned about them and had seen their misery, they bowed down and worshiped.
Exodus 5
¹ After this presentation to Israel’s leaders, Moses and Aaron went and spoke to Pharaoh. They told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Let my people go so they may hold a festival in my honor in the wilderness.”
² “Is that so?” retorted Pharaoh. “And who is the LORD? Why should I listen to him and let Israel go? I don’t know the LORD, and I will not let Israel go.”
³ But Aaron and Moses persisted. “The God of the Hebrews has met with us,” they declared. “So let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness so we can offer sacrifices to the LORD our God. If we don’t, he will kill us with a plague or with the sword.”