Exodus 4:25

Immediately Sephora took a very sharp stone, and circumcised the fore skin of her son, and touched his feet and said: A bloody spouse art thou to me.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.

In Context

24And when he was in his journey, in the inn, the Lord met him, and would have killed him.

26And he let him go after she had said A bloody spouse art thou to me, because of the circumcision.

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Cross References

Genesis 17:14The male, whose dash of his foreskin shall not be circumcised, that soul shall be destroyed out of his people: because he hath broken my covenant.

Joshua 5:2At that time the Lord said to Josue: Make thee knives of stone, and circumcise the second time the children of Israel.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 4:25-31

The Circumcision of the Son of Moses. ( b. c. 1491.) 24 And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the Lord met him, and sought to kill him. 25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me. 26 So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision. 27 And the Lord said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him.… Read the whole commentary →

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