Zipporah

Zipporah or Tzipora (צפורה "Bird", Standard Hebrew Ẓippora, Tiberian Hebrew Ṣippôrāh), mentioned in the Book of Exodus, is Moses's wife.

Moses meets Zipporah when fleeing from Egypt. Her father is Jethro, a priest of Midian. Zipporah and Moses have two sons, Gershom and Eliezer. At one point, as Moses is returning to Egypt to confront Pharaoh, Zipporah saves Moses's life. God is prepared to kill Moses, apparently because his firstborn son Gershom had not been circumcised, so Zipporah performs the circumcision and touched Moses's feet with the foreskin, saying, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me." God then spares Moses.

It is unclear whether Zipporah is identical to the Cushite (i.e. black) wife that Moses takes according to the Book of Numbers. Jewish tradition holds the two to be identical, but much modern interpretation generally does not.

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