Bible verse
So the LORD let him alone. (When she said, “bridegroom of blood,” she was referring to the circumcision.)
Exodus 4:26 · BSB
The verses around it, from Exodus 4.
22 Then tell Pharaoh that this is what the LORD says: ‘Israel is My firstborn son,
23 and I told you to let My son go so that he may worship Me. But since you have refused to let him go, behold, I will kill your firstborn son!’”
24 Now at a lodging place along 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 it to Moses’ feet. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said.
26 So the LORD let him alone. (When she said, “bridegroom of blood,” she was referring to the circumcision.)
27 Meanwhile, the LORD had said to Aaron, “Go and meet Moses in the wilderness.” So he went and met Moses at the mountain of God and kissed him.
28 And Moses told Aaron everything the LORD had sent him to say, and all the signs He had commanded him to perform.
29 Then Moses and Aaron went and assembled all the elders of the Israelites,
30 and Aaron relayed everything the LORD had said to Moses. And Moses performed the signs before the people,
KJV
So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband [thou art], because of the circumcision.
ASV
So he let him alone. Then she said, A bridegroom of blood art thou, because of the circumcision.
ERV
So he let him alone. Then she said, A bridegroom of blood art thou, because of the circumcision.
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