If any male is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that man will be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.’
Exodus 4:25 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised So Zipporah took a flint, cut off her son’s foreskin, threw it at Moses’s feet, and said, ‘You are a bridegroom of blood to me! ’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [Now apparently he had failed to circumcise one of his sons, his wife being opposed to it; but seeing his life in such danger] Zipporah took a flint knife and cut off the foreskin of her son and cast it to touch [Moses'] feet, and said, Surely a husband of blood you are to me! American Standard Version (1901) Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, Surely a bridegroom of blood art thou to me. Common English Bible But Zipporah took a sharp-edged flint stone and cut off her son’s foreskin. Then she touched Moses’ genitals with it, and she said, “You are my bridegroom because of bloodshed.” Catholic Public Domain Version For this reason, Zipporah took a very sharp stone, and she circumcised the foreskin of her son, and she touched his feet, and she said, "You are a bloody spouse to me." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version 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. |
If any male is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that man will be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.’
Shimei said as he cursed, ‘Get out, get out, you man of bloodshed, you wicked man!
Now Jethro, Moses’s father-in-law, had taken in Zipporah, Moses’s wife, after he had sent her back,
Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.
So he let him alone. At that time she said, ‘You are a bridegroom of blood,’ referring to the circumcision.