²¹ Moses agreed to stay with the man, who gave his daughter Zipporah^(A) to Moses in marriage. ²² Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom,^[a](B) saying, “I have become a foreigner^(C) in a foreign land.”

²⁴ At a lodging place on the way, the Lord met Moses^[a] and was about to kill^(A) him. ²⁵ But Zipporah^(B) took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin^(C) and touched Moses’ feet with it.^[b] “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said. ²⁶ So the Lord let him alone. (At that time she said “bridegroom of blood,” referring to circumcision.)