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Zipporah is often included in Exodus-related drama. Examples include the films The Ten Commandments (1956), [23] The Prince of Egypt (1998), [24] and Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014). [25] She is the main character in Marek Halter's novel Zipporah, Wife of Moses (2005). [26]
Therefore, Moses sent Zipporah and their two sons back to her family in Midian. This assuaged God's wrath and spared Moses's life. It was only after the parting of the Red Sea and the Israelites' miraculous escape from Egypt that Moses's father-in-law Jethro brought Zipporah and her sons to rejoin Moses at the Israelite camp in the desert.
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.
Articles relating to Zipporah and her depictions. She is mentioned in the Book of Exodus as the wife of Moses, and the daughter of Reuel/Jethro, the priest and prince of Midian. She is the mother of Moses' two sons: Eliezer, and Gershom.
[44] [45] During the journey, God tried to kill Moses for failing to circumcise his son, [46] but Zipporah saved his life. Moses returned to carry out God's command, but God caused the Pharaoh to refuse, and only after God had subjected Egypt to ten plagues did Pharaoh relent.
Moses’ father-in-law Jethro came to Moses in the wilderness, bringing with him Moses’ wife Zipporah and their two sons, Gershom and Eliezer. [5] The priestly service of Gershom's descendant Jonathan on behalf of the Danites was illegal, because, although he was a Levite, he was not of Aaron's family.
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.
Moses agrees to use his military skills to assist Jethro in ridding the land of Midian of thieves. After this, Jethro allows Moses to marry his daughter, Zipporah, and Moses stays in Midian for twenty years. After twenty years, Moses decides to venture out and seek the Book of Thoth. Moses returns after a year to tell Jethro of his successful ...