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Zipporah [a] is mentioned in the Book of Exodus as the wife of Moses, and the daughter of Jethro, the priest and prince of Midian. [1] She is the mother of Moses' two sons: Eliezer, and Gershom. In the Book of Chronicles, two of her grandsons are mentioned: Shebuel, son of Gershom; and Rehabiah, son of Eliezer (1 Chronicles 23:16–17).
Moses saw Zipporah's act of self-mutilation as a remnant of his wife's idolatrous upbringing, and a demonstration that God's displeasure at her presence was indeed well-founded. Therefore, Moses sent Zipporah and their two sons back to her family in Midian. This assuaged God's wrath and spared Moses's life.
Moses might not have been circumcised; one of his sons was not, nor were some of his followers while traveling through the desert. [48] Moses's wife Zipporah circumcised their son when God threatened to kill Moses.
The baptism, depicted on the opposite fresco, was in fact considered by several early Christian writers, including Augustine, as a kind of "spiritual circumcision". The ceremony is on the right, and includes Zipporah. [2] In the right background Moses and Zipporah are greeting Jethro before leaving. Natural elements include the hill landscape ...
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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 .
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 Ethiopian wife, Zipporah. The oil on canvas painting is now in the Rubenshuis museum in Antwerp ...
Jethro and Moses (watercolor circa 1900 by James Tissot). In the first reading, Moses' father-in-law Jethro heard all that God had done for the Israelites and brought Moses' wife Zipporah and her two sons Gershom ("I have been a stranger here") and Eliezer ("God was my help") to Moses in the wilderness at Mount Sinai. [4]