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.
Then Zipporah took a sharp stone and circumcised her son. She threw the foreskin at Moses' feet and said, 'You are truly a husband of blood to me.'
This verse shows Zipporah quickly circumcising their son and expressing her distress to Moses about the bloody requirement of this covenant ritual.
📚 Historical Context
This dramatic scene occurs as Moses is returning to Egypt to deliver Israel, but God threatens to kill him because he had neglected to circumcise his son as required by God's covenant with Abraham. Zipporah, Moses' Midianite wife, acts decisively to save her husband's life by performing the circumcision herself, though she clearly finds the ritual disturbing and foreign to her culture.
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