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Exodus 4:26
And he let him go after she had said: A bloody spouse art thou to me, because of the circumcision.
Exodus 4:26 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
Exodus 4:26 in other translations
So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.
So the LORD let him alone. (When she said, “bridegroom of blood,” she was referring to the circumcision.)
So he let him alone. Then she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision.
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In context
23 I have said to thee: Let my son go, that he may serve me, and thou wouldst not let him go: behold I will kill thy son, thy firstborn.
24 And when he was in his journey, in the inn, the Lord met him, and would have killed him.
25 Immediately Sephora took a very sharp stone, and circumcised the foreskin of her son, and touched his feet, and said: A bloody spouse art thou to me.
26 And he let him go after she had said: A bloody spouse art thou to me, because of the circumcision.
27 And the Lord said to Aaron: Go into the desert to meet Moses. And he went forth to meet him in the mountain of God, and kissed him.
28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord, by which he had sent him, and the signs that he had commanded.
29 And they came together, and they assembled all the ancients of the children of Israel.
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