Learn About Moses’s Wife
When Moses flees for his life, he meets seven shepherdesses, the daughters of Reuel. Moses marries one of the daughters, Zipporah. Moses and Zipporah have two sons. They are Gershom and Eliezer.
Years later when Moses and his family travel to Egypt, God afflicts Moses. This is apparently because Moses failed to circumcise his son Gershom, as God commanded the Israelites to do through Abraham.
Just as God is about to kill Moses for his disobedience, Zipporah acts. She pulls out a knife and circumcises Gershom. She touches Moses with the removed foreskin. This appeases God, and he spares Moses.
Zipporah does what her husband did not do. She obeys God’s command and saves her husband’s life.
How willing are we to act when others fail to?
How can we discern when to intervene and when not to?
[Read about Zipporah in Exodus 2:21–22 and Exodus 4:24–26. Discover more in Exodus 18:2–6.]
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