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.
So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose for us men, and go out and fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.”
And Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his staff twice, and water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their livestock.
The Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A staff.”
And take in your hand this staff, with which you shall do the signs.”
At this retort Moses fled and became an exile in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.
She gave birth to a son, and he called his name Gershom, for he said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.”
Lift up your staff, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, that the people of Israel may go through the sea on dry ground.
And when he sent word to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons with her,”