The Father's Plan: Question in Exodus

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See Exodus Chpt 4, vs. 24-27
Why did God want to slay Moses? He had just commissioned him to go to Egypt.

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According to The New Jerome Biblical Commentary, verses 24-26 vividly illustrate the popular belief that the firstborn son is owed to Yahweh, not to Pharaoh. Whatever the origins of the story–perhaps an old story of a night demon fooled by the blood from someone other than the intended victim–its intent is to point forward to the tenth and final plague and to the redemption of the Israelite firstborn. Like Moses’ mother and sister, who saved him by their daring and wit, Zipporah in the face of sudden danger quickly daubs her sleeping husband’s penis (feet = euphemism in v. 25) with the blood from the cirumcision of her firstborn son and so averts the danger.
 
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