Exodus 4:25 BSB — MannaFest

Exodus 4:25

But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin, and touched it to Moses’ feet. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said.

BSB

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ASV

Then 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.

KJV

Then 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.

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Commentary

1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Sharp stone - Not “knife,” as in the margin. Zipporah used a piece of flint, in accordance with the usage of the patriarchs. The Egyptians never used bronze or steel in the preparation of mummies because stone was regarded as a purer and more sacred material than metal. Cast it at his feet - Showing at once her abhorrence of the rite, and her feeling that by it she had saved her husband’s life. A bloody husband - Literally, “a husband of blood,” or “bloods.” The meaning is: The marriage bond between us is now sealed by blood.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַתִּקַּ֨ח	va.ti.Kach	and she took	H3947 →
צִפֹּרָ֜ה	tzi.po.Rah	Zipporah	H6855 →
צֹ֗ר	Tzor	a flint	H6864 →
וַתִּכְרֹת֙	va.tikh.Rot	and she cut off	H3772 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
עָרְלַ֣ת	'a.re.Lat	[the] foreskin of	H6190 →
בְּנָ֔הּ	be.Nah	son her	H1121 →
וַתַּגַּ֖ע	va.ta.Ga'	and she made [it] touch	H5060 →
לְרַגְלָ֑יו	le.rag.Lav	<to> feet his	H7272 →
וַתֹּ֕אמֶר	va.To.mer	and she said	H559 →
כִּ֧י	ki	that	H3588 →
חֲתַן־	cha.tan-	[are] a bridegroom of	H2860 →
דָּמִ֛ים	da.Mim	blood<s>	H1818 →
אַתָּ֖ה	'a.Tah	you	H859 →
לִֽי׃	Li	to <the> me

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 17:14
But if any male is not circumcised, he will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”
leads to
- Exodus 4:24–26
  Now at a lodging place along the way, the LORD met Moses and was about to kill him.
- Numbers 15:30–31
  But the person who sins defiantly, whether a native or foreigner, blasphemes the LORD. That person shall be cut off from among his people.
- Exodus 12:19
  For seven days there must be no leaven found in your houses. If anyone eats something leavened, that person, whether a foreigner or native of the land, must be cut off from the congregation…
Through
2 Samuel 16:7
And as he yelled curses, Shimei said, “Get out, get out, you worthless man of bloodshed!
leads to
- 1 Kings 21:10
  But seat two scoundrels opposite him and have them testify, ‘You have cursed both God and the king!’ Then take him out and stone him to death.”
- 1 Samuel 25:17
  Now consider carefully what you must do, because disaster looms over our master and all his household. For he is such a scoundrel that nobody can speak to him!”
- Deuteronomy 13:13
  that wicked men have arisen from among you and have led the people of their city astray, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods” (which you have not known),
- 2 Samuel 11:15–17
  In the letter he wrote: “Put Uriah at the front of the fiercest battle; then withdraw from him, so that he may be struck down and killed.”
- 2 Samuel 3:37