Zipporah in the Bible

Meaning: beauty; trumpet; mourning

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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.

So He let Moses alone [to recover]. At that time Zipporah said, “You are a husband of blood”—because of the circumcision.

Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back,

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Then Zipporah took a stone and circumcised her son, and fell at his feet, and said, "A bloody husband art thou unto me." And he let him go. She said 'a bloody husband' because of the circumcision.


The priest of Midian had seven daughters which came and drew water and filled the troughs, for to water their father's sheep. And the shepherds came and drove them away: But Moses stood up and helped them and watered their sheep. And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, "How happeneth it that ye are come so soon today?" read more.
And they answered, "There was an Egyptian that delivered us from the shepherds, and so drew us water and watered the sheep." And he said unto his daughters, "Where is he? Why have ye left the man? Go call him that he may eat bread." And Moses was content to dwell with the man. And he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter which bare a son, and he called him Gershom: for he said, "I have been a stranger in a strange land." And she bare yet another son, whom he called Eliezer saying, "The God of my father is mine helper, and hath rid me out of the hands of Pharaoh."


And he took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after she was sent back; and her two sons, of which the one was called Gershom - for he said, "I have been an alien in a strange land" - And the other was called Eliezer - "For the God of my father was mine help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh." read more.
And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his two sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness: where he had pitched his tent by the mount of God. And he sent word to Moses, "I, thy father-in-law Jethro, am come to thee; and thy wife also, and her two sons with her."


And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses, because of his wife the Ethiopian which he had taken: for he had taken a Ethiopian to wife.


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