Zipporah or Tzipora (Hebrew: צִפּוֹרָה, Modern Ẓippora Tiberian Ṣippôrāh ; Greek: Σεπφώρα - Sephora ; Arabic: Safura or Safrawa صفورة صوانة ; "bird"), is mentioned in the Book of Exodus as the wife of Moses, and the daughter of Jethro, a priest of Midian.
In the Book of Exodus, Moses escapes from Egypt, and begins working for Jethro as a shepherd. Subsequently, he meets and marries Zipporah. They have two sons, Gershom and Eliezer.
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Zipporah or Tzipora (Hebrew: צִפּוֹרָה, Modern Ẓippora Tiberian Ṣippôrāh ; Greek: Σεπφώρα - Sephora ; Arabic: Safura or Safrawa صفورة صوانة ; "bird"), is mentioned in the Book of Exodus as the wife of Moses, and the daughter of Jethro, a priest of Midian.
In the Book of Exodus, Moses escapes from Egypt, and begins working for Jethro as a shepherd. Subsequently, he meets and marries Zipporah. They have two sons, Gershom and Eliezer.
Zipporah also features in a much more curious, and much-debated, passage (Exodus 4:24-27). The passage concerning Moses and Zipporah reach an inn contains four of the most difficult sentences in Biblical text. One possible interpretation is that something (perhaps God, perhaps an agent of God) tries to kill Moses, until Zipporah carries out a circumcision. (Other interpretations suggest that it is their son, Gershom, who is attacked.) Yet another is that Moses tries to kill his own son and only after Zipporah cuts the child's foreskin, drawing blood and...
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