Zipporah was the wife of Moses during the time of Egypt and wilderness, daughter of Jethro, and mother of Gershom and Eliezer, mentioned in Exodus 2:21.
About Zipporah
The wife of Moses and mother of his sons, Gershom and Eliezer (Exodus 2:21). Zipporah is listed as the daughter of Reuel (Exodus 2:18). But, Reuel was probably the father of Hobab, who was the father of Zipporah (Numbers 10:29; called Jethro in Exodus 3:1; 4:18). So, Reuel would have been Zipporah's grandfather.
Zipporah circumcised Gershom to prevent Moses’ death before his return to Egypt (Exodus 4:25). Apparently at that point Zipporah and the children left Moses and went back to live with her father, returning later during the time Israel wandered in the wilderness (Exodus 18:2).
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Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.
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.
After Moses had sent back his wife Zipporah, his father-in-law Jethro had received her,
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Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.
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.
After Moses had sent back his wife Zipporah, his father-in-law Jethro had received her,