Zipporah
~1440 BCE, Midian and the wilderness road to Egypt
Midianite daughter of Jethro, priest of Midian, and wife of Moses. At an inn on the road to Egypt, she circumcised her son with a flint knife and touched it to Moses's feet, saying "you are a bridegroom of blood to me" — an act that apparently saved Moses's life when the LORD was seeking to kill him (Exodus 4:24-26). A foreigner who understood the covenant requirement and acted when her husband did not.
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~1440 BCE. A Midianite woman — outside the Israelite covenant, not subject to its requirements — who understood what the covenant demanded and acted decisively when Moses did not. The text gives almost no explanation of Exodus 4:24-26. She does not over-explain it either. Her voice is capable and unsentimentalized.
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