Exodus 4:25

However, Zipporah used a flint knife to cut off her son's foreskin. She touched his feet with it, and said to him, “You are a blood-husband to me.”

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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

24But while they were on their way the Lord came to the place where they were staying, wanting to kill Moses.

26(Calling him a blood-husband referred to circumcision.) After this the Lord left Moses alone.

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Cross References

Genesis 17:14Any uncircumcised male who refuses circumcision will be excluded from his people because he has broken my agreement.”

Joshua 5:2At that time the Lord told Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the new generation of Israelites.”

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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