Exodus 4

Today we see the conclusion of the burning bush story, and God's gift to Moses of three signs by which the Israelites will know that he was indeed sent by the I Am. I've got to admit, those were pretty cool too - especially the snake one. We also are told that Aaron, Moses' brother, would go with him to speak on his behalf. Apparently Moses wasn't confident in his public speaking ability, and there wasn't time to send him to Speech 101 ;) It looks like he may have even had a speech impediment, but I couldn't tell for sure if that was the case.

The later half of the chapter covers a very odd story about something that happened while Moses and company were traveling to Egypt. "Now it came about at the lodging place on the way that the LORD met him [Moses] and sought to put him to death." (Ex 4:24, NASB) How is that for a conundrum - God sent Moses on an important journey, and then on the way nearly kills him. Apparently Moses had not followed the covenant of Abraham by having his son circumcised, which I imagine he knew full well needed to be done. I guess it just seems like odd timing to me: why wait till he was already en route? Why not deal with it before, at the burning bush? Oh well, another one of those questions to ask someday...