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Zipporah or Tzipora (צִפּוֹרָה "Bird", Standard Hebrew Ẓippora, Tiberian Hebrew Ṣippôrāh), mentioned in the Book of Exodus, is Moses's wife. Moses meets Zipporah once fleeing from either Egypt. Her father is Jethro, a priest of Midian. Zipporah & Moses use deuce sons, Gershom and Eliezer. Zipporah features inside the puzzling & lot-debated passage: At one point, when Moses is giving to Egypt to confront Pharaoh, Zipporah saves Moses's life. God is prepared to obliterate Moses, apparently because his eldest boy Gershom got non been circumcised, so Zipporah performs a circumcision & touched Moses's feet using a foreskin, saying, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me." God so spares Moses. She is buried in the Tomb of the Matriarchs in Tiberias. A traditional Jewish & Christian look at has been that Zipporah is Moses' Cushite wife described in [http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers%2012:1;&version=31; Numbers 12:1], however occasionally early sources (including Josephus Jewish Antiquities 2.10-11 & Targum Pseudo-Jonathan) state they were different women, when clean a bit of modern scholars.[http://bible-history.com/isbe/C/CUSHITE+WOMAN%3B+ETHIOPIAN+WOMAN/] [http://bible-history.com/isbe/Z/ZIPPORAH/]
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Jewish Encyclopedia: Zipporah Overview of the wife of Moses from the traditional Jewish perspective, including rabbinic commentary. Zipporah Biblical biography of the wife of Moses. Biblical Personalities: Zipporah A contemporary Jewish look at the neglected wife of Moses. Zipporah A Seventh-Day Adventist perspective on the wife of Moses. Zipporah: Patient in Trials Character study of the wife of Moses from a Christian magazine. Jewish Virtual Library: Zipporah Brief profile of the wife of Moses, with links to pertinent Torah passages. |
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