23 and I told you, “Let my son go,(A) so he may worship(B) me.” But you refused to let him go; so I will kill your firstborn son.’”(C)

24 At a lodging place on the way, the Lord met Moses[a] and was about to kill(D) him. 25 But Zipporah(E) took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin(F) and touched Moses’ feet with it.[b] “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 4:24 Hebrew him
  2. Exodus 4:25 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.

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