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So he let him alone.וַיִּרֶף מִמֶּנּוּIt was thenאָזthat she said,אָמְרָה“a bridegroomחֲתַןof blood,”דָּמִיםbecause of the circumcision.לַמּוּלֹת
Exodus 4:26
Study it in the app“So he let him alone. It was then that she said, “a bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Exodus 4:26, word by word
- So he let him aloneיִּרֶףyiref
let go
To let go, leave: "let me go".
Where else “yiref” appears- that she saidאָמְרָהamra
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “amra” appears- “a bridegroomחֲתַןchatan
bridegroom
The man who is marrying or newly married.
Where else “chatan” appears- of bloodדָּמִיםdamim
blood
The red fluid that runs through the body and carries the life of people and animals.
Where else “damim” appears- because of the circumcisionמּוּלֹתmulot
circumcision
Circumcision. In this form it occurs only in Exodus 4:26.
Where else “mulot” appears
Translation note
The passage 4:24-26 is very brief and does not explain whom YHWH attacked or why.
The context
25Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off the foreskin of her son and touched it to his feet and said, “Surely a bridegroom of blood you are to me!”
26 · This verse (above)
27YHWH said to Aaron, “Go to meet Moses in the wilderness.” So he went and met him at the mountain of Elohim and kissed him.