Exodus 5:26?

Question

Can someone explain this verse to me? So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.

You might want to check out the surrounding verses for context.

sorry guys. i meant 4:26

Answer 1

23. So I say to you, 'Send out My son so that he will worship Me, but if you refuse to send him out, behold, I am going to slay your firstborn son.' "
24. Now he was on the way, in an inn, that the Lord met him and sought to put him to death.
25. So Zipporah took a sharp stone and severed her son's foreskin and cast it to his feet, and she said, "For you are a bridegroom of blood to me."

and cast it to his feet She cast it before Moses’ feet. — [from Yerushalmi, Ned. 3:9]
and she said about her son.
For you are a bridegroom of blood to me You were a cause that my bridegroom would [almost] be murdered. You are to me the slayer of my bridegroom.

26. So He released him. Then she said, "A bridegroom of blood concerning the circumcision."

So He released [I.e.,] the angel [released] him. Then she understood that [it was] because of the circumcision that he had come to slay him.
she said, “A bridegroom of blood concerning the circumcision” My bridegroom would have been murdered because of the circumcision.

27. The Lord said to Aaron, "Go toward Moses, to the desert." So he went and met him on the mount of God, and he kissed him.
28. And Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord with which he had sent him and all the signs that He had commanded him.

Moses hadn't circumsized his son, and it is a commandment to do so. She is talking to the foreskin, about how it almost cost her the life of her husband.

Answer 2

The best scholars can come up with is that it is a reflection of a very ancient demon exorcism rite from the desert tribes of Midion. It probably had to do with the wedding week rituals. The son got introduced to the narrative to protect the image of Moses.
We often read the "mature" faith of the OT/NT back into the history of the faith's development. Remember at this point, the Exodus had not happened, there were no people of God, the Levites didn't exist nor evidently did cultic worship. This is religion in the "roll over" before sit up age.

Answer 3

The verse is Exodus 4:25. Moses had neglected to circumcise his son Eliezer. I believe that Zipporah was a Midian, descedents of Abraham. I believe it was not her custom to circumsise.
I believe that Moses was ashamed because he waited so long. He was a bloody husband because it was his son and her child.
It was all about the Law.

Answer 4

Actually this is Exodus 4:25. Jewish babies are supposed to be circumcised on the 8th day. Apparently Moses had ignored that command and had not had his son circumcised. It could be that his wife Zipporah, who was not Jewish, was part of the reason for ignoring the command. At any rate, God was angry with Moses and about to kill him for his disobedience. Zipporah circumcised their son to save Moses. She touched Moses' feet with the foreskin (yeah, gross) and declared "A bloody husband thou art," in reference to the blood of the circumcision. (According to Jewish Law, blood renders a person unclean for a period of time. There were specific instructions Moses would have had to follow at that point. ) As a result If Zipporah's actions, God did not take Moses' life.

Answer 5

Exodus 5 only has 23 verses.

Answer 6

Exodus 5 only has 23 verses. The verse in question is from Exodus 4: 26 - and according to www.biblegateway.com - one must take this verse in context - "God's displeasure against Moses, Aaron meets him, The people believe them.

God met Moses in anger. The Lord threatened him with death or sent sickness upon him, as the punishment of his having neglected to circumcise his son. When God discovers to us what is amiss in our lives, we must give all diligence to amend it speedily. This is the voice of every rod; it calls us to return to Him that smites us. God sent Aaron to meet Moses. The more they saw of God's bringing them together, the more pleasant their interview was. The elders of Israel met them in

faith, and were ready to obey them. It often happens, that less difficulty is found than was expected, in such undertakings as are according to the will of God, and for his glory. Let us but arise and try at our proper work, the Lord will be with us and prosper us. If Israel welcomed the tidings of their deliverance, and worshipped the Lord, how should we welcome the glad tidings of redemption, embrace it in faith, and adore the Redeemer."

Answer 7

It's 4:26 not 5:26, btw.

I have no idea ... why did Zipporah call her son a "bloody husband"? I don't know much about their lives really.

Answer 8

This account is found in Exodus 4;

When Jehovah sent Moses back to Egypt, Zipporah and their two sons started out to accompany him. Along the way a very serious incident occurred, the rather obscure account of which says:

“Now it came about on the road at the lodging place that Jehovah [“Jehovah’s angel,” LXX] got to meet him and kept looking for a way to put him to death. Finally Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and caused it to touch his feet and said: ‘It is because you are a bridegroom of blood to me.’ Consequently he let go of him. At that time she said: ‘A bridegroom of blood,’ because of the circumcision.”—Ex 4:24-26.

It seems that it was the child’s life that was in danger in view of what the law of circumcision states at Genesis 17:14; that Zipporah circumcised the child because she realized what was needed to set matters right; that she cast the foreskin at the feet of the angel who was threatening the child’s life to demonstrate her compliance with Jehovah’s law; that Zipporah addressed Jehovah through his representative angel when she exclaimed, “You are a bridegroom of blood to me,” doing so to show her acceptance of a wifely position in the circumcision covenant with Jehovah as the husband.—See Jer 31:32.

In any case, because of her decisive act of obedience to God’s requirement, the life of her son was no longer in danger.

Answer 9

There are only 22 verses in chapter 5. What are you looking at?

Answer 10

It’s Exodus 4:26, not chapter 5.

I’d assume that it was because Zipporah did not agree with the custom of circumcision, not being Hebrew herself..