Moshe took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moshe took God's rod in his hand.
Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Yisra'el shall go into the midst of the sea on dry ground.
Moshe said to Yehoshua, *Choose men for us, and go out, fight with `Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God's rod in my hand.*
He said to Moshe, I, your father-in-law Yitro, have come to you with your wife, and her two sons with her.
She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, *I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land.*
You shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs.*
The LORD said to him, *What is that in your hand?* He said, *A rod.*
Moshe lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice: and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their livestock.
Moshe fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midyan, where he became the father of two sons.