Exodus 4:26

and He desists from him. Then she said, “A bridegroom of blood,” in reference to the circumcision.

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In The King James Version

So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.

In Context

25and Zipporah takes a flint, and cuts off the foreskin of her son, and causes [it] to touch his feet, and says, “You [are] surely a bridegroom of blood to me”;

27And YHWH says to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses”; and he goes, and meets him on the mountain of God, and kisses him,

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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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