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  2. Zipporah - Wikipedia

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    Like many other prominent biblical characters, Zipporah is depicted in several works of art. In Marcel Proust's story Swann's Way (1913), Swann is struck by the resemblance of his eventual wife Odette to Sandro Botticelli’s painting of Zipporah in a Sistine Chapel fresco, and this recognition is the catalyst for his obsession with her. [22]

  3. Zipporah at the inn - Wikipedia

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    The story would seem to illustrate that the phrase does not imply that a bridegroom should or may be circumcised at the time of his marriage, but that Moses by being bloodied by the foreskin of his son became a "bridegroom of blood" to Zipporah. The story has also been interpreted as emphasizing the point that the circumcision must be performed ...

  4. Moses and his Ethiopian wife Zipporah - Wikipedia

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    Moses and his Ethiopian wife Zipporah (Dutch: Mozes en zijn Ethiopische vrouw Seporah) is a painting of 1645–1650, by the Flemish Baroque painter Jacob Jordaens. [1] [2] The painting is a half-length depiction of the biblical prophet Moses, and his African wife. The oil on canvas painting is now in the Rubenshuis museum in Antwerp, Belgium.

  5. List of people in both the Bible and the Quran - Wikipedia

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    Sarah, Hagar, Zipporah, Elizabeth, Raphael, Cain and Abel, Korah, Joseph's brothers, Potiphar and his wife, Eve, Jochebed, Samuel, Noah's sons, and Noah's wife are mentioned, but unnamed in the Quran. In Islamic tradition, these people are given the following names:

  6. Jethro (biblical figure) - Wikipedia

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    Jethro's daughter, Zipporah, became Moses' wife after Moses fled Egypt for killing an Egyptian who was beating an enslaved Hebrew. Having fled to Midian, Moses intervened in a water-access dispute between Jethro's seven daughters and the local shepherds; Jethro consequently invited Moses into his home and offered him hospitality.

  7. Gershom - Wikipedia

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    According to the Bible, Gershom (גֵּרְשֹׁם ‎ Gēršōm, "a sojourner there"; Latin: Gersam) was the firstborn son of Moses and Zipporah. [1] The name means "a stranger there" in Hebrew, (גר שם ‎ ger sham), which the text argues was a reference to Moses' flight from Egypt.

  8. Youth of Moses - Wikipedia

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    On the right is Moses killing the Egyptian who had harassed a Hebrew, and fleeing to the desert (a parallel with the episode of Jesus defeating the Devil). In the next episode Moses fights the shepherds who were preventing Jethro's daughters (including his future wife, Zipporah) to water their cattle at the pit, and then takes the water for ...

  9. Moses Defends Jethro's Daughters - Wikipedia

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    As a reward, Moses was given one of the girls as his wife, Zipporah. [7] The life story of Moses was popular in the humanistic circles of Florence because of the "Life of Moses", written by the Jewish author Philo in the 1st century. Rosso had to know the text, retaining its moralizing and philosophical connotation. [7]