God tells Moses in Midian: go back to Egypt, for all those who wanted to kill you are dead. The death sentence that drove Moses from Egypt forty years earlier has expired with the generation that issued it. The practical obstacle to return — fear of the old warrant — has been removed. This verse quietly echoes the New Testament pattern in Matthew 2:19–20, where an angel tells Joseph in Egypt: get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were trying to take the child's life are dead. The same structure — a wanted man receiving word that the threat against his life has died with those who made it — frames both the first deliverer and the one to whom Moses points. God attends to the practical details of His commission: He does not send Moses back to die before he arrives. The path is cleared before the journey begins.

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