Mose
Zipporah and the Bridegroom of Blood
At the lodging place on the way to Egypt, the Lord meets Moses and seeks to kill him. Zipporah takes a sharp flint stone, cuts off her son's foreskin, touches Moses' feet, and calls him a bridegroom of blood. Then the Lord lets him go.
2. Mose 4,24-26
24On the way, at a place where they stopped for the night, the LORD met him and sought to put him to death.
וַיְהִ֥י בַדֶּ֖רֶךְ בַּמָּל֑וֹן וַיִּפְגְּשֵׁ֣הוּ יְהוָ֔ה וַיְבַקֵּ֖שׁ הֲמִיתֽוֹ׃
25But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son's foreskin, and touched it to his feet, saying, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me."
וַתִּקַּ֨ח צִפֹּרָ֜ה צֹ֗ר וַתִּכְרֹת֙ אֶת־עָרְלַ֣ת בְּנָ֔הּ וַתַּגַּ֖ע לְרַגְלָ֑יו וַתֹּ֕אמֶר כִּ֧י חֲתַן־דָּמִ֛ים אַתָּ֖ה לִֽי׃
26So he let him alone. It was then that she said, "A bridegroom of blood," because of the circumcision.
וַיִּ֖רֶף מִמֶּ֑נּוּ אָ֚ז אָֽמְרָ֔ה חֲתַ֥ן דָּמִ֖ים לַמּוּלֹֽת׃ פ