25But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son's foreskin and touched [Moses'] feet with it. "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me," she said


In Context

22 Then say to Pharaoh, 'This is what the Lord says: Israel is my firstborn son,

23 and I told you, "Let my son go, so he may worship me." But you refused to let him go; so I will kill your firstborn son.' "

24 At a lodging place on 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 [Moses'] feet with it. "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me," she said

26 So the Lord let him alone. (At that time she said "bridegroom of blood," referring to circumcision.)

27 The Lord said to Aaron, "Go into the desert to meet Moses." So he met Moses at the mountain of God and kissed him.

Exodus 4:25 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:25Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast [it] at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband [art] thou to me.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:25Immediately Sephora took a very sharp stone, and circumcised the fore skin of her son, and touched his feet and said: A bloody spouse art thou to me.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:25Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, Surely a bridegroom of blood art thou to me.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:25Then Zipporah took a stone and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, A bloody husband indeed art thou to me!

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:25Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, Surely a bridegroom of blood art thou to me.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:25Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:25Then 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.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:25and Zipporah taketh a flint, and cutteth off the foreskin of her son, and causeth it to touch his feet, and saith, 'Surely a bridegroom of blood art thou to me;'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:25Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband are you to me.