This translation is from the New American Standard Bible. Other translations are available here. Information about the original Hebrew meaning of what seem to be the key words is provided in blue immediately below the scriptural text.
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Then Moses departed and returned to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, “Please, let me go, that I may return to my brethren who are in Egypt, and see if they are still alive.” And Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.” 19Now the Lord said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all the men who were seeking your life are dead.” 20So Moses took his wife and his sons and mounted them on a donkey, and returned to the land of Egypt. Moses also took the staff of God in his hand.
21The Lord said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your power; but I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go. 22Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Israel is My son, My firstborn. 23So I said to you, ‘Let My son go that he may serve Me’; but you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn.”’”
24Now it came about at the lodging place on the way that the Lord met him and sought to put him to death. 25Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and threw it at Moses’ feet, and she said, “You are indeed a bridegroom of blood to me.” 26So He let him alone. At that time she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood”—because of the circumcision.
27Now the Lord said to Aaron, “Go to meet Moses in the wilderness.” So he went and met him at the mountain of God and kissed him. 28Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord with which He had sent him, and all the signs that He had commanded him to do. 29Then Moses and Aaron went and assembled all the elders of the sons of Israel; 30and Aaron spoke all the words which the Lord had spoken to Moses. He then performed the signs in the sight of the people. 31So the people believed; and when they heard that the Lord was concerned about the sons of Israel and that He had seen their affliction, then they bowed low and worshiped.
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go = יָלַךְ = yālaḵ Blue Letter Bible go, walk, come; lead, bring, lead away, carry, cause to walk; journey; proceed
see = רָאָה= rā'â Blue Letter Bible to see, look at, inspect, perceive, consider; learn about, observe, watch, look upon, look out, find out; consider, look at, give attention to, discern, distinguish; gaze at; enjoy, have experience, take heed; spy, stare; enjoy the light; be pleased with the sight; provide or care for, go to see
perform= עָשָׂה = ʿāśâ Blue Letter Bible to do, fashion, accomplish, make; work, produce; to deal (with); to act, act with effect, effect; attend to, put in order; to observe, celebrate; advance; follow, fulfill; be industrious, labor; yield; produce by labor
go = יָלַךְ = yālaḵ Blue Letter Bible go, walk, come; lead, bring, lead away, carry, cause to walk; journey; proceed
went = יָלַךְ = yālaḵ Blue Letter Bible go, walk, come; lead, bring, lead away, carry, cause to walk; journey; proceed
went = יָלַךְ = yālaḵ Blue Letter Bible go, walk, come; lead, bring, lead away, carry, cause to walk; journey; proceed
believed = אָמַן = 'āman Blue Letter Bible to support, confirm, be faithful; to be established, be faithful, be carried, make firm; pillars, supporters of the door; to trust, to be certain, to believe in; to render (or be) firm or faithful, to trust or believe, to be permanent or quiet; morally to be true or certain; to prop, stay, sustain, support, lean on, build on; to be founded, firm, stable, confide in
heard = שָׁמַע = šāmaʿ Blue Letter Bible listen to, obey; perceive by ear; hear with attention or interest; give heed; consent, agree; yield to; obey, be obedient; hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.); hear and answer
concerned = פָּקַד = pāqaḏ Blue Letter Bible to attend to, muster, number, reckon, visit, punish, appoint, look after; to pay attention to, observe; observe (with care, practical interest); to go to; search
bowed low = קָדַד = qāḏaḏ Blue Letter Bible to shrivel up, i.e. contract or bend the body (or neck) in deference:—bow (down) (the) head, stoop; incline; cleave
worship = שָׁחָה = šāḥâ Blue Letter Bible bow down; depress; prostrate oneself; fall down (flat), humbly beseech, do (make) obeisance, do reverence, make to stoop, worship; bow down, prostrate oneself, before a monarch or superior, in homage, etc.; sink down; honor God with prayers; submit oneself
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