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Exodus 4:26
So he let him alone. Then she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision.
Exodus 4:26 · World English Bible
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 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 firstborn son.’”
24 On the way at a lodging place, the LORD met Moses and wanted to kill him.
25 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.”
26 So he let him alone. Then she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision.
27 The LORD said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.” He went, and met him on God’s mountain, and kissed him.
28 Moses told Aaron all the LORD’s words with which he had sent him, and all the signs with which he had instructed him.
29 Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel.
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