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


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 son, your firstborn.'|

24 It happened on the way at a lodging place, that Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 words of Yahweh with which he had sent him, and all the signs with which he had instructed him.

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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:26So the Lord let him alone. (At that time she said "bridegroom of blood," referring to 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 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.