Wife of moses in book exodus

The untold story of zipporah, wife of moses what do you. The quran states that musa was sent by god to the pharaoh of egypt and his establishments and the israelites for guidance and. Zipporah, wife of moses in the bible, a determined woman. The book of exodus says that moses father was a hebrew named amram.

Yet in the book of numbers mosess sister miriam is upset about his having taken a cushite wife. Moses took with him his wife and his sonsfor a second son was now born into the familyand moses was now eighty years of age. Zipporah may be obscure, but the wife of moses mattered politics. More evidence that moses only had one wife is found in exodus 4. Moses passes over these events with very little comment. One guy does the magic, the other guy does the schmoozing. Yet in the book of numbers mosess sister miriam is upset about his having taken a.

Moses first took his wife and children from midian to egypt on a donkey. The muslim scholar and mystic rumi, who titles moses as the spirit enkindler also includes a story of moses and a shepherd in his book, the masnavi. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. The book of exodus is the story of god rescuing the children of israel from egypt and forging a special relationship with them. Moses story is told in the book of exodus, but it starts in genesis with the story of abraham and his family with whom god makes a covenant. Moses stands up for the virgins and chases away the rude and unkind shepherds.

Zipporah or tzipora is mentioned in the book of exodus as the wife of moses, and the daughter of reueljethro, the priest and prince of midian. Later, zipporah had another son named eliezer exodus 18. Well, god appoints him as the official communicator in mosess dealings with pharaoh 4. Moses our teacher, is the most important prophet in judaism. Who was the ethiopian cushite wife that moses took numbers 12. Now the lord said to moses in midian, go, return to egypt. Then jethro, moses father in law, took zipporah, moses wife, after he had sent her back, and her two sons.

Lets look at what the scriptures actually say by starting in the book of exodus. Once again moses had acted in defence of the downtrodden. Zipporah may be obscure, but the wife of moses mattered. Moses first served the king of cush and then upon his death became king himself, ruling for 40 years. Her name reappears one last time in scripture when jethro, her father, brings her and the sons to mount sinai to meet up with moses and the children of israel who are camped at its base exodus 18. In the book of exodus, after moses read the entire law of god to the people of israel, he sprinkled the book of the mosaic covenant with the blood of calves and goats as well as the people, thus putting that covenant god made with the people of israel into effect. Later on, asiya, wife of pharaoh, finds moses at the river and adopts him as her own, but moses refuses to be suckled by her.

Yocheved moses mother and later wetnurse, miriam, shifrah and puah and the other midwives, serach bat asher, and moses wife tziporah. These are all strong forces within the story of shemot. In order to understand the implications of the feminine drama within this book of the bible. There is no mention of moses being married a second time or any mention of zipporahs death in the scriptures. Jun 10, 2017 zipporah was the wife that gave birth to the two sons of moses. Who was the wife of moses in book of exodus answers. Who was moses cushite wife mentioned in numbers 12. Tharbis wife of moses my search for the political mary. Moses and his wife are traveling to egypt because god had told moses to bring the israelites out of bondage exodus 3. In the book of chronicles, two of her descendants are mentioned.

Jan 02, 2020 wife is singular, and there is no mention of any other wife or wives that moses had. The second book of moses, called exodus tells the story of how baby moses was put into a rush basket and set loose into the nile river by his sister miriam to save him from pharoahs edict ordering all hebrew baby boys slain. This is the story of moses wife, zipporath, a black cushite whom he married before beginning his service to god and bringing out the hebrew people from egypt in the exodus. Later, they reunite, but he may have taken a second wife, a cushite or ethiopian woman. Miryam is described in the hebrew bible as the daughter of amram and jochebed, and the older sister of moses and aaron. The pharaoh in the story never has a name put to him. Moses is too prostrate to take a knife and circumcize the child, so his wife severed the boys foreskin. This silence may be due to the fact that moses wishes to stress the continuity between the events recorded in the book of genesis with those of the book of exodus. After the exodus, her father, the priest of midian here called jethro, comes to visit moses, bringing zipporah and her two sons. Exodus is the second book of the pentateuch the five books of moses, and its where we find the stories of the ten plagues, the first passover, the parting of the red sea, and the ten commandments the book gets its name from the nation. When we research the lineage of zipporah moses wife we see that it goes back to the midianites.

Nov 11, 2019 and moses was content to dwell with the man, and he gave moses his daughter zipporah exodus 2. Nov 17, 2018 the book of exodus is the story of god rescuing the children of israel from egypt and forging a special relationship with them. First lets see whether moses was married to zipporah. Zipporah was one of seven midianite sisters that mistook moses for an egyptian after he saved them from the men at the well exodus 2. Exodus is the second book of the pentateuch the five books of moses, and its where we find the stories of the ten plagues, the first passover, the parting of the red sea, and the ten commandments. Moses had sent zipporah back to her own relations, either in anger, on account of the scene described in exodus 4. Her father jethro was the priest of midian, and it was he that gave zipporah to moses to marry.

Moses sends her and the children away before the exodus from egypt. So moses was in reality married to two women, the ethiopian princess tharbis and the midianite princess zipporah. Wife is singular, and there is no mention of any other wife or wives that moses had. Moses is also revered in islamic literature, which narrates and explains different parts of the life of moses. Mary elizabeth baxter zipporah, the wife of mosesexodus 4. Moses is told that his fatherinlaw jethro is coming to see you, with your wife and her two sons exod i8. One baby escapes and is found by pharaohs daughter and named moses. At a later time moses sent zipporah back to the house of her father, but when jethro came to visit moses in the wilderness, jethro brought zipporah back with him. Well, god appoints him as the official communicator in moses s dealings with pharaoh 4. Sep 15, 2019 we read about moses, his wife zipporah and their two sons, gershom and eliezer, in the book of exodus. He was given the former kings widow as a wife but he refused to live with her or worship the cushite god yalkut shimoni shemot 168. Shebuel, son of gershom, and rehabiah, son of eliezer.

I, your fatherinlaw jethro, am coming to you, with your wife and her two sons exodus 18. Home content index books of the bible exodus moses wife. Later in the book of exodus, there is a strange passage involving zipporah. Zipporah is a midianite woman who becomes the wife of moses. One thing led to another, of course, and moses married jethro s daughter zipporah. Zipporah is only mentioned once in exodus that moses married her and had a son named gershom. Oct 22, 2014 the second book of moses, called exodus tells the story of how baby moses was put into a rush basket and set loose into the nile river by his sister miriam to save him from pharoahs edict ordering all hebrew baby boys slain. Zipporah was not a descentant of cush, the son of ham,cush was the forefather of the ethiopians. The defiant leader moses rises up against egyptian pharaoh ramses ii, setting six hundred thousand slaves on a monumental journey of escape from egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues. We read about moses, his wife zipporah and their two sons, gershom and eliezer, in the book of exodus. When she said, bridegroom of blood, she was referring to the circumcision.

Zipporah was the wife that gave birth to the two sons of moses. The bible seems to indicate that moses wife zipporah and her two sons were sent back to midian after the event involving circumcision. As an adult, he kills an overseer for beating an israelite and flees to the desert. The story of mosess cushite wife is actually quite cryptic. Zipporah, wife of moses by marek halter books on tape. Zipporah, the name of moses wife, is only referenced three times in the bible exodus 2. Tharbis wife of moses the second book of moses, called exodus tells the story of how baby moses was put into a rush basket and set loose into the nile river by his sister miriam to save him from pharoahs edict ordering all hebrew baby boys slain. One son was named gershom, for moses had said, i have been a foreigner. The last we hear of them is in chapter 18, when jethro brings them to moses after he had led the people out of egypt. When he communicated to jethro the message of his god, jethro made no difficulty, but said to moses. Generations later the biblical moses draws the extended family together in the form of a nation with a structure and code of law, given to him on mount sinai. In the book of exodus, we are introduced to zipporah, the daughter of jethro, wife of moses and mother of their two sons, gershom and eliezer. With that introduction, i will present some of the explanations given of mosess cushite wife.

The secret history of egypt at the time of the exodus kindle edition by osman, ahmed. And moses was content to dwell with the man, and he gave moses his daughter zipporah exodus 2. As you observed, we hear earlier of moses marrying the daughter of jethro the midianite. On the way to egypt, zipporah circumcised their son and thus saved her husbands lifemoses had neglected to obey the lord in this matter, and the lord would have killed moses had not zipporah intervened exodus 4. Jan 02, 2020 gershoms name was a reminder that moses was a foreigner and living among foreigners. Moses ends up dwelling with the family and eventually takes as a wife one of the priests daughters named zipporah exodus 2. And were even told that the team works well together 4.

Sometimes in scripture we run across strange events that have no explanation as to what led up to them happening. Gershoms name was a reminder that moses was a foreigner and living among foreigners. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading moses and akhenaten. She was a prophetess and first appears in the book of exodus. Then she said to moses, you are a bridegroom of blood to me. Certainly if he had left her, she would have either been killed or used to pressure him to surrender. More than 400 years separate the life of joseph from the birth of the nation israel at the exodus.

After moses had sent away his wife zipporah, his father in law jethro took her back, along with her two sons. The lord met moses at that place and tried to kill him. The untold story of zipporah, wife of moses what do you think. The circumcision of one or both of moses sons is one of those events. The pharaohs daughter adopted moses and raised him as her own. The daughters inform their father about what occurred and he invites the man of god for a meal. The secret history of egypt at the time of the exodus. Jethro assumed that, as the main troubles were now over, he would be glad to have his wife and. The visit of jethro 1 now moses fatherinlaw jethro, the priest of midian, heard about all that god had done for moses and his people israel, and how the lord had brought israel out of egypt. What about the other biblical quotations on page v. The untold story of zipporah, wife of moses by levi avtzon in the book of exodus, we are introduced to zipporah, the daughter of jethro, wife of moses and mother of their two sons, gershom and eliezer. The only other possibility is that there were two priests of midian, one called jethro and one called reuel and that moses had married a daughter from each familybut that would be very unlikely. Moses was rescued by pharoahs own daughter who raised him as a prince of egypt.

Although her name is listed only a few times in scripture, her interactions with one of the most famous men in scripture is worth studying. After moses had sent away his wife zipporah, his fatherinlaw jethro took her back, along with her two sons. In the biblical narrative he was the leader of the israelites and lawgiver, to whom the authorship of. The cushite woman whom moses married in numbers 12. If you havent already, read the beautiful excerpt from song of solomon on page v. At some point before the exodus from egypt, moses sends her and the children away exod 18. The name of the wife of moses is zipporah, she was the daughter of jethro. With christian bale, joel edgerton, ben kingsley, sigourney weaver. Moses and the ten commandments the beginners bible. After the exodus, her father, the priest of midian here called jethro, comes to visit moses.

The cushite wife of moses is one of the minor figures in the book of numbers. Musa known as moses in judaeochristian theology, considered a prophet and messenger in islam, is the most frequently mentioned individual in the quran, his name being mentioned 5 times. The name of the one was gershom for he said, i have been an alien in a foreign land, and the name of the other, eliezer for he said, the god of my father was my help, and delivered me from the sword of pharaoh. Read the portions of exodus pertaining to zipporahs story. Moses adoptive grandfather was pharaoh osirtasin i sesostris, herodotus, 2. Below, peter machinist explores the story of moses, the exodus hero, in. Divorces his idolatrous wife ambassadors sent by moses to edom numbers 20. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading zipporah, wife of moses. The untold story of the hebrew midwives and the exodus. How has the novel changed your understanding of her importance.