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Bible Verses About Zipporah

15 verses · 4 aspects

Key Bible Verses

  1. And the priest of Madian had seven daughters, who came to draw water: and when the troughs were filled, desired to water their father's flocks.

  2. And the shepherds came and drove them away: and Moses arose, and defending the maids, watered their sheep.

  3. And when they returned to Raguel their father, he said to them: Why are ye come sooner than usual?

  4. They answered: A man of Egypt delivered us from the hands of the shepherds: and he drew water also with us, and gave the sheep to drink.

  5. But he said: Where is he? why have you let the man go? call him that he may eat bread.

  6. And Moses swore that he would dwell with him. And he took Sephora his daughter to wife:

  7. And she bore him a son, whom he called Gersam, saying: I have been a stranger in a foreign country. And she bore another, whom he called Eliezer, saying: For the God of my father, my helper, hath delivered me out of the hand of Pharao.

  8. Immediately Sephora took a very sharp stone, and circumcised the foreskin of her son, and touched his feet, and said: A bloody spouse art thou to me.

  9. And he let him go after she had said: A bloody spouse art thou to me, because of the circumcision.

  10. He took Sephora, the wife of Moses, whom he had sent back:

  11. And her two sons, of whom one was called Gersam: his father saying, I have been a stranger in a foreign country.

  12. And the other Eliezer: For the God of my father, said he, is my helper, and hath delivered me from the sword of Pharao.

  13. And Jethro, the kinsman of Moses, came with his sons, and his wife to Moses into the desert, where he was camped by the mountain of God.

  14. And he sent word to Moses, saying: I Jethro, thy kinsman, come to thee, and thy wife, and thy two sons with her.

  15. And Mary and Aaron spoke against Moses, because of his wife the Ethiopian,