Focused Passage

Exodus 4:24-26

Signs, Reluctance, Covenant Blood, and Return to Egypt

The LORD answers Moses' objections with signs and provision, sends him back to Egypt with Aaron, confronts covenant disobedience in Moses' household, and brings Israel's elders to believe and worship.

Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources

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.)

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References and Original Words

Verse 24

Cross-references

Genesis 17:14 Classic cross-references Luke 10:34 Classic cross-references Numbers 22:22 Classic cross-references 1 Chronicles 21:16 Classic cross-references Exodus 3:18 Classic cross-references

Original words

Now at a lodging place בַּמָּל֑וֹן H4411 Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular along the way בַדֶּ֖רֶךְ H1870 Preposition-b, Article | Noun - common singular vvv וַיְהִ֥י H1961 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular the LORD יְהוָ֔ה H3068 Noun - proper - masculine singular met [Moses] וַיִּפְגְּשֵׁ֣הוּ H6298 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular and was about וַיְבַקֵּ֖שׁ H1245 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular to kill him הֲמִיתֽוֹ׃ H4191 Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct | third person masculine singular

BSB notes

Hebrew him

Verse 25

Cross-references

Joshua 5:2 Classic cross-references Genesis 17:14 Classic cross-references 2 Samuel 16:7 Classic cross-references

Original words

But Zipporah צִפֹּרָ֜ה H6855 Noun - proper - feminine singular took וַתִּקַּ֨ח H3947 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular a flint knife צֹ֗ר H6864 Noun - masculine singular cut off וַתִּכְרֹת֙ H3772 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular - אֶת־ H853 Direct object marker her son’s בְּנָ֔הּ H1121 Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular foreskin עָרְלַ֣ת H6190 Noun - feminine singular construct and touched it וַתַּגַּ֖ע H5060 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular to [Moses’] feet לְרַגְלָ֑יו H7272 Preposition-l | Noun - feminine dual construct | third person masculine singular Surely כִּ֧י H3588 Conjunction you [are] אַתָּ֖ה H859 Pronoun - second person masculine singular a bridegroom חֲתַן־ H2860 Noun - masculine singular construct of blood דָּמִ֛ים H1818 Noun - masculine plural to me לִֽי׃ Preposition | first person common singular she said וַתֹּ֕אמֶר H559 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular

BSB notes

Hebrew his feet

Verse 26

Original words

So [the LORD] let him alone וַיִּ֖רֶף H7503 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular . . . מִמֶּ֑נּוּ H4480 Preposition | third person masculine singular When אָ֚ז H227 Adverb she said אָֽמְרָ֔ה H559 Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular bridegroom חֲתַ֥ן H2860 Noun - masculine singular construct of blood דָּמִ֖ים H1818 Noun - masculine plural she was referring to the circumcision לַמּוּלֹֽת׃פ H4139 Preposition-l, Article | Noun - feminine plural

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