Thematic Bible: Zipporah


Thematic Bible



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.

Now, the priest of Midian, had seven daughters, - and they came and drew and filled the troughs, to water their fathers flock. Then came the shepherds, and drave them away, - so Moses rose up, and succoured them, and watered their flock, Then came they in unto Reuel their father, - and he said, Wherefore have ye so early come in to-day? read more.
And they said, An Egyptian, delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, - Moreover also he drew, for us, and watered the flock. And he said unto his daughters - And where is he? wherefore is it that ye left the man? Call him that he may eat bread. And Moses was well-pleased to dwell with the man, - and he gave Zipporah his daughter to Moses. And she bare a son, and he called his name Gershom, - for he said, A, sojourner, I am, in a strange land.

So Jethro, Moses father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses wife, - after she had been sent home; and her two sons, - of whom, the name of the one, was Gershom, for, said he, A sojourner, am I in a strange land, and, the name of the other, Eliezer, for the God of my father, was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh. read more.
And Jethro, Moses father-in-law, came in, with his two sons and his wife, unto Moses, - into the desert where, he, was encamping, the mountain of God; and said unto Moses, I, thy father-in-law, Jethro, am coming in unto thee, - and thy wife, and her two sons, with her.

And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses, on account of the Cushite woman whom he had taken, - for, a Cushite woman, had he taken. Verse ConceptsProvoking GodAaron, CharacterAaron, Sins OfSecond MarriageInterracial MarriageRebellion against GodFunPatience In Relationshipsdiscriminationcriticisminterracial