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| - The tale of Zipporah at the inn, is one of the more unusual, curious, and much-debated, passages of the Torah. When Moses and Zipporah reach an inn: the LORD met him, and sought to kill him. 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. So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision -Exodus 4:24b-26
- Zipporah at the inn is the name given to an episode alluded to in three verses of Exodus. It is one of the more unusual, curious, and much-debated, passages of the Pentateuch. The verses in question are Exodus 4:24–26, the context is Moses and Zipporah reaching an inn on their way to from Midian to Egypt to announce the plagues to the Pharaoh:
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| - Zipporah at the inn is the name given to an episode alluded to in three verses of Exodus. It is one of the more unusual, curious, and much-debated, passages of the Pentateuch. The verses in question are Exodus 4:24–26, the context is Moses and Zipporah reaching an inn on their way to from Midian to Egypt to announce the plagues to the Pharaoh: On the way, at a place where they spent the night, the LORD met him and tried to kill him. But Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin, and touched his feet with it, and said, "Truly you are a bridegroom of blood to me!" So he let him alone. It was then she said, "A bridegroom of blood by circumcision." (NRSV)
- The tale of Zipporah at the inn, is one of the more unusual, curious, and much-debated, passages of the Torah. When Moses and Zipporah reach an inn: the LORD met him, and sought to kill him. 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. So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision -Exodus 4:24b-26
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