Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.

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."

Now Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, had taken back Moses' wife Zipporah after she had been sent away,