Zipporah

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

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Moses meets Zipporah when fleeing from Egypt. Her father is Jethro, a priest of Midian. Zipporah and Moses have two sons, Gershom and Eliezer.

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Zipporah features in a puzzling and much-debated passage: 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.

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She is buried in the Tomb of the Matriarchs in Tiberias.

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The traditional Jewish and Christian view has been that Zipporah is Moses' Cushite wife described in Numbers 12:1, but some early sources (including Josephus Jewish Antiquities 2.10-11 and Targum Pseudo-Jonathan) state they were different women, as do some modern scholars.http://bible-history.com/isbe/C/CUSHITE+WOMAN%3B+ETHIOPIAN+WOMAN/ http://bible-history.com/isbe/Z/ZIPPORAH/

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Book of Exodus: Exodus (, exodos, meaning "departure") or Shemot (, literally "names") is the second book of the Hebrew Bible, and the second of five books of the Torah/Pentateuch....