Êxodo 4:20

20 Então Moisés levou sua mulher e seus filhos montados num jumento e partiu de volta ao Egito. Levava na mão a vara de Deus.

Êxodo 4:20 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 4:20

And Moses took his wife, and his sons
Gershom and Eliezer; by which it appears that he intended to stay in Egypt, and that he believed that God would work deliverance by him: and set them upon an ass:
which though with us a mean creature, yet in those times and countries were rode upon by great personages; and these, as Aben Ezra says, were reckoned in Egypt more honourable than mules. It may be the singular is put for the plural, and that each of them was set upon an ass, with servants to take care of them: and he returned to the land of Egypt;
that is, he set forward to go thither; for before he got thither, various things are related which befell him: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand:
his shepherd's staff, so called, because God ordered him to take it; and besides, he had wrought signs and wonders by it already, and would do many more.

Êxodo 4:20 In-Context

18 Depois Moisés voltou a Jetro, seu sogro, e lhe disse: “Preciso voltar ao Egito para ver se meus parentes ainda vivem”.Jetro lhe respondeu: “Vá em paz!”
19 Ora, o SENHOR tinha dito a Moisés, em Midiã: “Volte ao Egito, pois já morreram todos os que procuravam matá-lo”.
20 Então Moisés levou sua mulher e seus filhos montados num jumento e partiu de volta ao Egito. Levava na mão a vara de Deus.
21 Disse mais o SENHOR a Moisés: “Quando você voltar ao Egito, tenha o cuidado de fazer diante do faraó todas as maravilhas que concedi a você o poder de realizar. Mas eu vou endurecer o coração dele, para não deixar o povo ir.
22 Depois diga ao faraó que assim diz o SENHOR: Israel é o meu primeiro filho,
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