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Exodus 4:20

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Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moses took God’s rod in his hand.

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Exodus 4:20 in other translations

And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.

Exodus 4:20 · American Standard Version

Exodus 4:20 in context

  1. 18Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, “Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive.”
    Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”
  2. 19Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, “Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead.”
  3. 20Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moses took God’s rod in his hand.
  4. 21Yahweh said to Moses, “When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.
  5. 22You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,