Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it and said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!”
Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.”
And Shimei said as he cursed, “Get out, get out, you man of blood, you worthless man!
And Moses was content to dwell with the man, and he gave Moses his daughter Zipporah.
So he let him alone. It was then that she said, “A bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision.
Now Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, had taken Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her home,