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Exodus 4:23

World English Bible

and I have said to you, “Let my son go, that he may serve me;” and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your firstborn son.’ ”

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Exodus 4:23 in other translations

and I have said unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me; and thou hast refused to let him go: behold, I will slay thy son, thy first-born.

Exodus 4:23 · American Standard Version

Exodus 4:23 in context

  1. 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.
  2. 22You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,
  3. 23and I have said to you, “Let my son go, that he may serve me;” and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your firstborn son.’ ”
  4. 24On the way at a lodging place, Yahweh met Moses and wanted to kill him.
  5. 25Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me.”