Exodus 4:18–26

Moses went his way, and returned to Jethro his father in law, and said to him; I will go and return to my brethren into Egypt, that I may see if they be yet alive. And Jethro said to him: Go in peace. 19And the Lord said to Moses, in Madian: Go, and return into Egypt; for they are all dead that sought thy life. 20Moses therefore took his wife, and his sons, and set them upon an ass; and returned into Egypt, carrying the rod of God in his hand. 21And the Lord said to him as he was returning into Egypt: See that thou do all the wonders before Pharao, which I have put in thy hand: I shall harden his heart, and he will not let the people go. 22And thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Israel is my son, my firstborn. 23I have said to thee: Let my son go, that he may serve me, and thou wouldst not let him go: behold I will kill thy son, thy firstborn. 24And when he was in his journey, in the inn, the Lord met him, and would have killed him. 25Immediately Sephora took a very sharp stone, and circumcised the foreskin of her son, and touched his feet, and said: A bloody spouse art thou to me. 26And he let him go after she had said: A bloody spouse art thou to me, because of the circumcision.