Zipporah in the Bible
Meaning: beauty; trumpet; mourning
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And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
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.
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Zipporah » Reproaches moses
Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son's foreskin, and touched Moses' feet with it, saying while doing so, ""because you are a bridegroom of blood to me." Then the LORD withdrew from him, and she said, ""a bridegroom of blood because of circumcision."
Zipporah » Wife of moses
Meanwhile, the seven daughters of a certain Midianite priest would come to draw water in order to fill water troughs for their father's sheep. Some shepherds came to drive them away, but Moses got up, came to their rescue, and watered their sheep. When they returned to their father Reuel, he asked, "Why have you returned so quickly today?" read more.
"An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds," they replied, "and he even drew water for us and watered the sheep!" "Then where is he?" He asked his daughters. "Why did you leave the man behind? Go invite him to have something to eat." Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage. Later she gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, because he used to say, "I became an alien in a foreign land."
"An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds," they replied, "and he even drew water for us and watered the sheep!" "Then where is he?" He asked his daughters. "Why did you leave the man behind? Go invite him to have something to eat." Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage. Later she gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, because he used to say, "I became an alien in a foreign land."
Zipporah » Separates from moses, is brought again to him by her father
Now Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, had taken back Moses' wife Zipporah after she had been sent away, along with her two sons. The name of the one was Gershom, because he uwould say, "I was an alien in a foreign land," while the name of the other was Eliezer, because he would say, "My father's God helped me and delivered me from Pharaoh's sword." read more.
Moses' father-in-law Jethro, together with Moses' two sons and his wife, came to Moses in the desert where he was camped at the mountain of God. He told Moses, "I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you along with your wife and her two sons."
Moses' father-in-law Jethro, together with Moses' two sons and his wife, came to Moses in the desert where he was camped at the mountain of God. He told Moses, "I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you along with your wife and her two sons."
Zipporah » Miriam and aaron upbraid moses concerning
Miriam and Aaron rebelled against Moses on account of the Cushite woman that he had married.