Motif
Blood circumcision rite ends a divine threat
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jewish christian
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Exodus Footnotes / Chapter 3 / Footnotes / Chapter 4; lines 228-294 confidence: medium
At a lodging place Yahweh meets Moses and wants to kill him; Zipporah circumcises her son with a flint, casts the foreskin at his feet, calls him a bridegroom of blood, and the text says he let him alone because of the circumcision.
When Yahweh wants to kill Moses at a lodging place, Zipporah circumcises her son with a flint, uses the phrase 'bridegroom of blood,' and the text says he let him alone.
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