25Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.
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At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time. …
And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.
And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 24-31)Moses is here going to Egypt, and we are told, I. How God met him in anger, Exod. 4:24-26. This is a very difficult passage of story; much has been written, and excellently written, to make it intelligible; we will try to make it improving. Here is, 1. The sin of Moses, which was neglecting to circumcise his son. This was probably the effect of his being unequally yoked with a Midianite, who was t…
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