Exodus 4:25

But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin, and touched it to Moses’ feet. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said.

Majority Standard Bible

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

24Now at a lodging place along the way, the LORD met Moses and was about to kill him.

26So the LORD let him alone. (When she said, “bridegroom of blood,” she was referring to the circumcision.)

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Cross References

Genesis 17:14But if any male is not circumcised, he will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”

Joshua 5:2At that time the LORD said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel once again.”

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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