Exodus 4:26 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁶ So he let him alone. It was then that she said “a bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ When He let [Moses] alone [to recover], Zipporah said, A husband of blood are you because of the circumcision.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ So he let him alone. Then she said, A bridegroom of blood art thou, because of the circumcision.

Common English Bible

²⁶ So the LORD let him alone. At that time, she announced, “A bridegroom because of bloodshed by circumcision.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ And he released him, after she had said, "You are a bloody spouse," because of the circumcision.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Exodus 4:26 Cross References

Exodus 4:25

But Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin, touched his feet with it, and said, “Truly you are a bridegroom of blood to me!”

Exodus 4:27

The Lord said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.” So he went, and he met him at the mountain of God and kissed him.