Zip'porah, or Zippo'rah,
daughter of Reuel or Jethro, the priest of Midian, wife of Moses and mother of his two sons Gershom and Eliezer.
comp. Exod 18:6 (B.C. 1530.) The only incident recorded in her life is that of the circumcision of Gershom.
And Moses was well-pleased to dwell with the man, - and he gave Zipporah his daughter to Moses.
And it came to pass, on the way, in the resting-place for the night, that Yahweh fell upon him, and sought to kill him. So Zipporah took a sharp stone and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it down at his feet, - and said - Surely, a bridegroom by rites of blood, art thou to me!
So Zipporah took a sharp stone and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it down at his feet, - and said - Surely, a bridegroom by rites of blood, art thou to me! So he let him go, Then, it was that she said, A bridegroom by rites of blood - with regard to the rites of circumcision. read more. And Yahweh said unto Aaron, Go thy way to meet Moses, towards the desert. So he went his way, and fell in with him in the mountain of God and kissed him. And Moses told Aaron, all the words of Yahweh wherewith he had sent him, - and all the signs wherewith he had charged him.
So Jethro, Moses father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses wife, - after she had been sent home;