Exodus 4:25
New Revised Standard Version
But Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin, and touched Moses’ feet with it, and said, “Truly you are a bridegroom of blood to me!”

Contemporary English Version
But Zipporah circumcised her son with a flint knife. She touched his legs with the skin she had cut off and said, "My dear son, this blood will protect you."

New American Bible
But Zipporah took a piece of flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and, touching his feet, she said, “Surely you are a spouse of blood to me.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Immediately Sephora took a very sharp stone, and circumcised the foreskin of her son, and touched his feet, and said: A bloody spouse art thou to me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Immediately Sephora took a very sharp stone, and circumcised the foreskin of her son, and touched his feet, and said: A bloody spouse art thou to me.

a sharp stone.

Joshua 5:2,3 At that time the Lord said to Joshua: Make thee knives of stone, and circumcise the second time the children of Israel. . . .

cast it.

Hebrews made it touch. bloody.

2 Samuel 16:7 And thus said Semei when he cursed the king: Come out, come out, thou man of blood, and thou man of Belial.

Context
Moses Leaves for Egypt
24And when he was in his journey, in the inn, the Lord met him, and would have killed him. 25Immediately Sephora took a very sharp stone, and circumcised the foreskin of her son, and touched his feet, and said: A bloody spouse art thou to me.26And he let him go after she had said: A bloody spouse art thou to me, because of the circumcision.…
Cross References
Genesis 17:14
The male whose flesh of his foreskin shall not be circumcised, that soul shall be destroyed out of his people: because he hath broken my covenant.

Exodus 2:21
And Moses swore that he would dwell with him. And he took Sephora his daughter to wife:

Exodus 4:26
And he let him go after she had said: A bloody spouse art thou to me, because of the circumcision.

Exodus 18:2
He took Sephora, the wife of Moses, whom he had sent back:

Joshua 5:2
At that time the Lord said to Joshua: Make thee knives of stone, and circumcise the second time the children of Israel.

Joshua 5:3
He did what the Lord had commanded, and he circumcised the children of Israel in the hill of the foreskins.

Exodus 4:24
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