Zipporah

Zipporah is a woman living at the time of Egypt and the wilderness. She is named in 3 verses of the Bible, first in Exodus 2:21.

Family

Verses

Exodus

• Exodus 2:21
  And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.
• Exodus 4:25
  Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin, and touched it to Moses’ feet. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said.
• Exodus 18:2
  Then Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her back,After Moses had sent back his wife Zipporah, his father-in-law Jethro had received her,

Notes

1. Names, family links and verses from STEPBible's Translators Individualised Proper Names (TIPNR), STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0.
2. Where several people share a name, which verses belong to which person, and the family links, follow STEPBible's identifications; some are uncertain and are marked so.