The Lord said to Moses in Midian, “Go back ¹  to Egypt, because all the men who were seeking your life are dead.” ² 

biblegateway Exo 4:19

Now the LORD said to Moses in Midian, "Go back to Egypt, for all the men who were seeking your life are dead."

Now in Midian the LORD told Moses, "Return to Egypt, for all the men who wanted to kill you are dead."

Now, the LORD had said to Moses in Midian, "Go back to Egypt, because all the men who wanted to kill you are dead."

biblegateway Exo 4:19

Now the LORD had said to Moses in Midian, "Go back to Egypt, for all the men who wanted to kill you are dead."

And the LORD said to Moses in Midian, "Go back to Egypt, for all the men who were seeking your life are dead."

bibleoremus Exo 4:19

The LORD said to Moses in Midian, "Go back to Egypt; for all those who were seeking your life are dead."

THE LORD spoke to Moses in Midian. “Go back to Egypt,” he said, “for all those who wanted to kill you are now dead.”

biblegateway Exo 4:19

And the LORD said to Moses in Midian, "Go, return to Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead."

And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life.

biblegateway Exo 4:19

The Lord said to Moses in Midian, “Go back ¹  to Egypt, because all the men who were seeking your life are dead.” ² 

¹ tn The text has two imperatives, “Go, return”; if these are interpreted as a hendiadys (as in the translation), then the second is adverbial.

² sn The text clearly stated that Pharaoh sought to kill Moses; so this seems to be a reference to Pharaoh’s death shortly before Moses’ return. Moses was forty years in Midian. In the 18th dynasty, only Pharaoh Thutmose III had a reign of the right length (1504-1450 b.c.) to fit this period of Moses’ life. This would place Moses’ returning to Egypt near 1450 b.c., in the beginning of the reign of Amenhotep II, whom most conservatives identify as the pharaoh of the exodus. Rameses II, of course, had a very long reign (1304-1236). But if he were the one from whom Moses fled, then he could not be the pharaoh of the exodus, but his son would be – and that puts the date of the exodus after 1236, a date too late for anyone. See E. H. Merrill, Kingdom of Priests, 62.