Exodus 4:25

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cutting off the skin of her son's private parts, and touching his feet with it, she said, Truly you are a husband of blood to me.

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Referenced Verses

  • Josh 5:2-3 : 2 At that time the Lord said to Joshua, Make yourself stone knives and give the children of Israel circumcision a second time. 3 So Joshua made stone knives and gave the children of Israel circumcision at Gibeath-ha-araloth.
  • Gen 17:14 : 14 And any male who does not undergo circumcision will be cut off from his people: my agreement has been broken by him.
  • 2 Sam 16:7 : 7 And Shimei said, with curses, Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, you good-for-nothing:

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  • 26 So he let him go. Then she said, You are a husband of blood because of the circumcision.

  • Exod 4:23-24
    2 verses
    79%

    23 And I said to you, Let my son go, so that he may give me worship; and you did not let him go: so now I will put the first of your sons to death.

    24 Now on the journey, at the night's resting-place, the Lord came in his way and would have put him to death.

  • 2 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,

  • Exod 2:20-22
    3 verses
    71%

    20 And he said to his daughters, Where is he? why have you let the man go? make him come in and give him a meal.

    21 And Moses was happy to go on living with the man; and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses.

    22 And she gave birth to a son, to whom he gave the name Gershom: for he said, I have been living in a strange land.

  • 70%

    11 If two men are fighting, and the wife of one of them, coming to the help of her husband, takes the other by the private parts;

    12 Her hand is to be cut off; have no pity on her.

  • 14 And any male who does not undergo circumcision will be cut off from his people: my agreement has been broken by him.

  • Josh 5:2-5
    4 verses
    69%

    2 At that time the Lord said to Joshua, Make yourself stone knives and give the children of Israel circumcision a second time.

    3 So Joshua made stone knives and gave the children of Israel circumcision at Gibeath-ha-araloth.

    4 And this is the reason why Joshua did so: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the fighting-men, had been overtaken by death in the waste land on the way, after they came out of Egypt.

    5 All the people who came out had undergone circumcision; but all the people whose birth had taken place in the waste land on their journey from Egypt had not.

  • 3 And on the eighth day let him be given circumcision.

  • 11 In the flesh of your private parts you are to undergo it, as a mark of the agreement between me and you.

  • Gen 17:23-24
    2 verses
    68%

    23 And Abraham took Ishmael, his son, and all whose birth had taken place in his house, and all his servants whom he had made his for a price, every male of his house, and on that very day he gave them circumcision in the flesh of their private parts as God had said to him.

    24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he underwent circumcision.

  • 6 Then one of the children of Israel came to his brothers, taking with him a woman of Midian, before the eyes of Moses and all the meeting of the people, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of meeting.

  • 15 But on this condition only will we come to an agreement with you: if every male among you becomes like us and undergoes circumcision;

  • Num 25:15-16
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    67%

    15 And the woman of Midian who was put to death was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was the head of a family in Midian.

    16 Then the Lord said to Moses,

  • 16 When you are looking after the Hebrew women in childbirth, if it is a son you are to put him to death; but if it is a daughter, she may go on living.

  • 4 Undergo a circumcision of the heart, you men of Judah and people of Jerusalem: or my wrath may come out like fire, burning so that no one is able to put it out, because of the evil of your doings.

  • 22 But these men will make an agreement with us to go on living with us and to become one people, only on the condition that every male among us undergoes circumcision as they have done.

  • Num 12:13-14
    2 verses
    66%

    13 And Moses, crying to the Lord, said, Let my prayer come before you, O God, and make her well.

    14 And the Lord said to Moses, If her father had put a mark of shame on her, would she not be shamed for seven days? Let her be shut up outside the tent-circle for seven days, and after that she may come in again.

  • 2 Sam 14:6-7
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    66%

    6 And I had two sons, and the two of them had a fight in the field, and there was no one to come between them, and one with a blow put the other to death.

    7 And now all the family is turned against me, your servant, saying, Give up him who was the cause of his brother's death, so that we may put him to death in payment for the life of his brother, whose life he took; and we will put an end to the one who will get the heritage: so they will put out my last burning coal, and my husband will have no name or offspring on the face of the earth.

  • 17 But if you will not undergo circumcision as we say, then we will take our daughter and go.

  • 26 She put out her hand to the tent-pin, and her right hand to the workman's hammer; and she gave Sisera a blow, crushing his head, wounding and driving through his brow.

  • 22 Moses gave you circumcision--not that it comes from Moses, but from the fathers--and even on the Sabbath you give a child circumcision.

  • 16 Let your circumcision be of the heart, and put away your pride.

  • 10 And a son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel and had a fight with a man of Israel by the tents;

  • 18 And if a man has sex relations with a woman at the time when she is unwell, he has seen her fountain and she has let the fountain of her blood be uncovered, and the two of them are to be cut off from among their people.

  • 23 And he put it to death; and Moses took some of the blood and put it on the point of Aaron's right ear and on the thumb of his right hand and on the great toe of his right foot.

  • 20 And Moses took his wife and his sons and put them on an ass and went back to the land of Egypt: and he took the rod of God in his hand.