Aaron Meets Moses in the Wilderness and Questions His Family

(Exodus 4:20) "And Moses took his wife and his sons." At that hour it was said to Aaron (below, verse 27), "Go to meet Moses in the wilderness." He went out to meet him and was embracing him and hugging him and kissing him. Moses said to him, "My brother, where have you been all these years?" He said to him, "In Midian." "What are these children and women with you?" He said to him, "My wife and my sons." He said to him, "Where are you taking them?" He said to him, "To Egypt." He said to him, "Over the first ones we are distressed, and now you bring the last ones too?" At that hour he said to her, "Go to your father's house," and therefore it is said, "after he had sent her away" (Exodus 18:2). ["And he set them on the donkey" (is written in remez 98). (Exodus 4:24-25) "And it came to pass on the way, at the lodging-place" etc., "and sought to kill him" (is written in remez 81). "And Zipporah took a flint" (in remez 81).] (Exodus 4:26) "Then she said, A bridegroom of blood [because of the circumcision]." All of Moses' business was only with "then [az]." How so? The saving of his life was only with "then [az]," as it is said, "So He let him alone; then she said." His reproach was only with "then [az]," as it is said, "and from the time [me-az] I came to Pharaoh." His song was only with "then [az]," as it is said, "Then Moses and the children of Israel sang" (Exodus 15:1). The setting apart of cities was only with "then [az]," as it is said, "Then Moses set apart three cities" (Deuteronomy 4:41).