Exodus 4:23-25

Contemporary English Version

²³^(A) and I commanded you to release him, so he could worship me. But you refused, and now I will kill your first-born son.”

Zipporah's Son Is Circumcised

²⁴One night while Moses was in camp, the Lord was about to kill him. ²⁵But Zipporah^[a] circumcised her son with a flint knife. She touched his^[b] legs with the skin she had cut off and said, “My dear son, this blood will protect you.”^[c]

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Footnotes

4.25 Zipporah: The wife of Moses (see 2.16-21).
4.25 his: Either Moses or the boy.
4.25 My dear son … you: Or “My dear husband, you are a man of blood” (meaning Moses).