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Selected Verse: Exodus 4:26 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Ex 4:26 |
King James |
So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision. |
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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
So he let him go--Moses recovered; but the remembrance of this critical period in his life would stimulate the Hebrew legislator to enforce a faithful attention to the rite of circumcision when it was established as a divine ordinance in Israel, and made their peculiar distinction as a people. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
So he let him go - i. e. God withdrew His visitation from Moses.
Moses sent Zipporah and her children back to Jethro before he went to Egypt, Exo 18:2. The journey would have been delayed had he waited for the healing of the child. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
So he let him go - The destroying angel withdrew. But still Zipporah cannot forget, but will unreasonably call Moses a bloody husband, because he obliged her to circumcise the child; and upon this occasion, (it is probable) he sent them back to his father - in - law, that they might not create him any farther uneasiness. When we have any special service to do for God, we should remove that as far from us as we can, which is likely to be our hindrance: let the dead bury their dead, but follow thou me. |
2 Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back,