23 Wherefore I say to thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn.

24 ¶ And as he was by the way in the Inn, the Lord met him, and [a]would have killed him.

25 Then Zipporah took a sharp knife, and [b]cut away the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Thou art indeed a bloody husband unto me.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 4:24 God punished him with sickness for neglecting his Sacrament.
  2. Exodus 4:25 This act was extraordinary: for Moses was sore sick, and God even then required it.

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