Thematic Bible: Zipporah


Thematic Bible



But Zipporah took a flint [knife], and she cut off the foreskin of her son, and she touched his feet, and she said, "Yes, you [are] a bridegroom of blood to me." And he left him alone. At that time she said, "A bridegroom of blood," because of the circumcision.


[Now] the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. And the shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and came to their rescue and watered their flock. And they came to Reuel, their father, and he said, "{Why have you come so quickly} today?" read more.
And they said, "An Egyptian man delivered us from the hand of the shepherds, and he even drew [water] for us and watered the flock." And he said to his daughters, "Where [is] he? {Why then} have you left the man? {Call him so that he can eat some food}." And Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave Zipporah his daughter to Moses. And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom because he said, "I am an alien in a foreign land."


And Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, took Zipporah the wife of Moses after her sending away, and her two sons--the one whose name [was] Gershom, for he had said, "I have been an alien in a foreign land," and the one [whose] name [was] Eliezer, for "the God of my father [was] my help, and he delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh." read more.
And Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, came and his sons and his wife to Moses, to the desert where he was camping there [at] the mountain of God. And he said to Moses, "I, your father-in-law Jethro, [am] coming to you and your wife and her two sons with her."


And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he took (because he took a Cushite wife);