Exodus 4:23-25

Contemporary English Version

^23 (A) and I commanded you to release him, so he could worship me. But you refused, and now I will kill your first-born son.”

Zipporah's Son Is Circumcised

²⁴ One night while Moses was in camp, the Lord was about to kill him. ²⁵ But Zipporah^[a] circumcised her son with a flint knife. She touched his^[b] legs with the skin she had cut off and said, “My dear son, this blood will protect you.”^[c]