Exodus 4:25

World English Bible (2000)

Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me."

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Referenced Verses

  • Josh 5:2-3 : 2 At that time, Yahweh said to Joshua, "Make flint knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time." 3 Joshua made himself flint knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
  • Gen 17:14 : 14 The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant."
  • 2 Sam 16:7 : 7 Shimei said when he cursed, "Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and base fellow!

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    26 So he let him alone. Then she said, "You are a bridegroom of blood," because of the circumcision.

  • Exod 4:23-24
    2 verses
    79%

    23 and I have said to you, "Let my son go, that he may serve me;" and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn.'"

    24 It happened on the way at a lodging place, that Yahweh met Moses and wanted to kill him.

  • Exod 18:2
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    2 Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,

  • Exod 2:20-22
    3 verses
    71%

    20 He said to his daughters, "Where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread."

    21 Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter.

    22 She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land."

  • Deut 25:11-12
    2 verses
    70%

    11 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the secrets;

    12 then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall have no pity.

  • Gen 17:14
    69%

    14 The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant."

  • Josh 5:2-5
    4 verses
    69%

    2 At that time, Yahweh said to Joshua, "Make flint knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time."

    3 Joshua made himself flint knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.

    4 This is the reason Joshua circumcised: all the people who came out of Egypt, who were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.

    5 For all the people who came out were circumcised; but all the people who were born in the wilderness by the way as they came out of Egypt had not been circumcised.

  • Lev 12:3
    68%

    3 In the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

  • Gen 17:11
    68%

    11 You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.

  • Gen 17:23-24
    2 verses
    68%

    23 Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money; every male among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him.

    24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

  • Num 25:6
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    6 Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

  • Gen 34:15
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    15 Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;

  • Num 25:15-16
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    15 The name of the Midianite woman who was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head of the people of a fathers' house in Midian.

    16 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Exod 1:16
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    16 and he said, "When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool; if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live."

  • Jer 4:4
    67%

    4 Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

  • Gen 34:22
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    22 Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised, as they are circumcised.

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    66%

    13 Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, "Heal her, God, I beg you!"

    14 Yahweh said to Moses, "If her father had but spit in her face, shouldn't she be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut up outside of the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again."

  • 2 Sam 14:6-7
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    6 Your handmaid had two sons, and they both fought together in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other, and killed him.

    7 Behold, the whole family has risen against your handmaid, and they say, 'Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.' Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth."

  • Gen 34:17
    66%

    17 But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our sister, and we will be gone."

  • Judg 5:26
    66%

    26 She put her hand to the tent peg, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer. With the hammer she struck Sisera. She struck through his head. Yes, she pierced and struck through his temples.

  • John 7:22
    65%

    22 Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.

  • Deut 10:16
    65%

    16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.

  • Lev 24:10
    65%

    10 The son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelite woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp.

  • Lev 20:18
    65%

    18 "'If a man lies with a woman having her monthly period, and uncovers her nakedness; he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.

  • Lev 8:23
    65%

    23 He killed it; and Moses took some of its blood, and put it on the tip of Aaron's right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot.

  • Exod 4:20
    65%

    20 Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. Moses took God's rod in his hand.