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


In Context

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.

28 Then Moses told Aaron everything the Lord had sent him to say, and also about all the miraculous signs he had commanded him to perform.

Exodus 4:26 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:26So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband [thou art,] because of the circumcision.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:26And he let him go after she had said A bloody spouse art thou to me, because of the circumcision.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:26So he let him alone. Then she said, A bridegroom of blood art thou , because of the circumcision.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:26And he let him go. Then she said, A bloody husband because of the circumcision.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:26So he let him alone. Then she said, A bridegroom of blood art thou, because of the circumcision.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:26So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:26So he let him alone. Then she said, |You are a bridegroom of blood,| because of the circumcision.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:26and He desisteth from him: then she said, 'A bridegroom of blood,' in reference to the circumcision.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:26So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband you are, because of the circumcision.