Exodus 4:26
24 Now at a lodging place along the way, the LORD met Moses and was about to kill him.
25 But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin, and touched it to Moses’ feet. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said.
So the LORD let him alone. (When she said, “bridegroom of blood,” she was referring to the circumcision.)
27 Meanwhile, the LORD had said to Aaron, “Go and meet Moses in the wilderness.” So he went and met Moses at the mountain of God and kissed him.
28 And Moses told Aaron everything the LORD had sent him to say, and all the signs He had commanded him to perform.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- So the LORD let him alone. (When she said, “bridegroom of blood,” she was referring to the circumcision.)
- KJV
- So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.
- WEB
- So he let him alone. Then she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision.
- ASV
- So he let him alone. Then she said, A bridegroom of blood [art thou], because of the circumcision.
- DARBY
- And he let him go. Then she said, A bloody husband because of the circumcision.
- BLB
- And He let him alone. (At that time she said, “[You are] a bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision.)
- ÅB
- Så lot han ham være; da sa hun: En blodbrudgom for omskjærelsens skyld.
- OTB
- Så lot Herren ham være. På den tiden sa hun «blodbrudgom,» med henvisning til omskjærelsen.
- B1930
- Så lot han ham være; da sa hun: En blodbrudgom for omskjærelsens skyld.