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18 于是摩西回到他岳父叶忒罗那里，对他说：“求你容我回去见我在埃及的弟兄，看他们还在不在。”叶忒罗对摩西说：“你可以平平安安地去吧！”
Then Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, "Let me go back to my own people in Egypt to see if any of them are still alive." Jethro said, "Go, and I wish you well."
19 耶和华在米甸对摩西说：“你要回埃及去，因为寻索你命的人都死了。”
Now the LORD had said to Moses in Midian, "Go back to Egypt, for all the men who wanted to kill you are dead."
20 摩西就带着妻子和两个儿子，叫他们骑上驴，回埃及地去。摩西手里拿着 神的杖。
So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey and started back to Egypt. And he took the staff of God in his hand.
21 耶和华对摩西说：“你回到埃及的时候要留意，将我指示你的一切奇事，行在法老面前，但我要使（或作“任凭”。下同）他的心刚硬，他必不容百姓去。
The LORD said to Moses, "When you return to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders I have given you the power to do. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.
22 你要对法老说：‘耶和华这样说：以色列是我的儿子，我的长子。
Then say to Pharaoh, 'This is what the LORD says: Israel is my firstborn son,
23 我对你说过，容我的儿子去，好侍奉我，你还是不肯容他去。看哪，我要杀你的长子。’”
and I told you, "Let my son go, so he may worship me." But you refused to let him go; so I will kill your firstborn son.'"
24 摩西在路上住宿的地方，耶和华遇见他，想要杀他。
At a lodging place on the way, the LORD met Moses and was about to kill him.
25 西坡拉就拿一块火石，割下他儿子的阳皮，丢在摩西脚前，说：“你真是我的血郎了。”
But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son's foreskin and touched Moses'feet with it. "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me," she said.
26 这样耶和华才放了他。西坡拉说：“你因割礼就是血郎了。”
So the LORD let him alone. (At that time she said "bridegroom of blood," referring to circumcision.)
27 耶和华对亚伦说：“你往旷野去迎接摩西。”他就去，在 神的山遇见摩西，和他亲嘴。
The LORD said to Aaron, "Go into the desert to meet Moses." So he met Moses at the mountain of God and kissed him.
28 摩西将耶和华打发他所说的言语和嘱咐他所行的神迹，都告诉了亚伦。
Then Moses told Aaron everything the LORD had sent him to say, and also about all the miraculous signs he had commanded him to perform.
29 摩西、亚伦就去招聚以色列的众长老。
Moses and Aaron brought together all the elders of the Israelites,
30 亚伦将耶和华对摩西所说的一切话述说了一遍，又在百姓眼前行了那些神迹，
and Aaron told them everything the LORD had said to Moses. He also performed the signs before the people,
31 百姓就信了。以色列人听见耶和华眷顾他们，鉴察他们的困苦，就低头下拜。
and they believed. And when they heard that the LORD was concerned about them and had seen their misery, they bowed down and worshiped.
「和合本 vs NIV」Exod4:18-31
注释：
1，摩西一家前往埃及
2，摩西老婆给他们的儿子行割礼
3，摩西和亚伦分别去见长老和百姓
诠释：
1可以看出岳父大人对摩西以及摩西整个家庭的厚爱。以及摩西在这个家庭里为人的谦卑态度。
2，耶和华想要“杀”摩西，是因为他没有按照先前与亚伯拉罕立下的约定给儿子行割礼。
神也不是真的想杀他，只是为了提醒他:
喂，这是怎么回事，你的后代没有行割礼！没有遵守约定哦！不然你很危险哦！
3，见亚伦随后说服以色列人信服了耶和华
应用:
1，谦卑的人必得饱足。这是神所默示的。
2，要想得恩典慈爱，不仅要信神，而且还要遵守神的话。遵守彼此间的约定。
3，有兄弟搭配，干活不累！
团结合作才能达成目标。
