Zipporah
Midianite originZipporah is a daughter of Jethro/Reuel of Midian and wife of Moses; after being sent home, Jethro brings her and her two sons back to Moses at the mountain of God.
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- First mention
- Exodus 2:21
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Scripture references
- Exodus 2:21
Moses agreed to stay on there with the man, who gave him his daughter Zipporah in marriage.
- Exodus 2:22
She gave birth to a son, whom he named Gershom 'because', he said, 'I am an alien in a foreign land.'
- Exodus 4:20
So Moses took his wife and his son and, putting them on a donkey, started back for Egypt; and Moses took the staff of God in his hand.
- Exodus 4:25
Then Zipporah, taking up a flint, cut off her son's foreskin and with it touched his feet and said, 'You are my blood-bridegroom!'
- Exodus 4:26
So he let him go. She said, 'Blood-bridegroom' then, with reference to the circumcision.
- Exodus 18:2
Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, then took back Zipporah, Moses' wife, whom Moses had sent home,
- Exodus 18:5
Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, with Moses' sons and wife, came to Moses in the desert where he was encamped, at the mountain of God.