Exodus 4:25-26
The Message
24-26 On the journey back, as they camped for the night, God met Moses and would have killed him but Zipporah took a flint knife and cut off her son’s foreskin, and touched Moses’ member with it. She said, “Oh! You’re a bridegroom of blood to me!” Then God let him go. She used the phrase “bridegroom of blood” because of the circumcision.
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Exodus 4:25
Contemporary English Version
25 But Zipporah[a] circumcised her son with a flint knife. She touched his[b] legs with the skin she had cut off and said, “My dear son, this blood will protect you.”[c]
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Exodus 4:25
King James Version
25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.
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