Exo 4:20-25, 18:2-6, Num 12:1 | ESV | STEP | So Moses took his wife and his sons and had them ride on a donkey , and went back to the land of Egypt . And Moses took the staff of God in his hand .

Exodus 4:20-25

20 So Moses took ^ahis wife and his sons and had them ride on a donkey, and went back to the land of Egypt. And Moses took ^bthe staff of God in his hand.

21 And the Lord said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the ^cmiracles that I have put in your power. But ^dI will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go. 22 Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, ^eIsrael is my ^ffirstborn son, 23 and I say to you, “Let my son go that he may serve me.” If you refuse to let him go, behold, I ^gwill kill your firstborn son.’”

24 At a lodging place on the way ^hthe Lord met him and ⁱsought to put him to death. 25 Then ^jZipporah took a ^kflint and cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ ^{▼▼Hebrew his} feet with it and said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!”

Exodus 18:2-6

2 Now Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, had taken Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her home, 3 along with her ^mtwo sons. The name of the one was Gershom ( ⁿfor he said, ^o“I have been a sojourner ^{▼▼ Gershom sounds like the Hebrew word for sojourner} in a foreign land”), 4 and the name of the other, Eliezer ^{▼▼ Eliezer means My God is help} (for he said, “The God of my father was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh”). 5 Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness where he was encamped at the ^rmountain of God. 6 And when he sent word to Moses, “I, ^{▼▼Hebrew; Samaritan, Septuagint, Syriac behold} your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons with her,”

Numbers 12:1

Miriam and Aaron Oppose Moses

1 Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman.