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Midian District
| Name | ZIPPORAH |
| Aliases | DAUGHTER OF JETHRO / WIFE OF MOSES / WHO CIRCUMCISED HER SON |
| Status | DECEASED / WIFE OF THE DELIVERER / MOTHER OF GERSHOM AND ELIEZER |
| Birth | UNRECORDED | Marks & Identifiers | THE SHEPHERDESS AT THE WELL OF MIDIAN |
| Place of Birth | MIDIAN | Hair | UNRECORDED |
| Tribe | NONE (A MIDIANITE) | Eyes | UNRECORDED |
| Parentage | DAUGHTER OF JETHRO, PRIEST OF MIDIAN | People | THE MIDIANITES |
| Occupation | SHEPHERDESS / WIFE AND MOTHER | Species | HUMAN |
| Affiliation | THE HOUSE OF MOSES | Calling | WIFE OF THE DELIVERER OF ISRAEL |
| Primary Mission | STAND WITH MOSES IN HIS CALLING | Known Signs | THE RESCUE AT THE WELL / THE FLINT AT THE LODGING |
| Covenant Role | MOTHER OF MOSES'S SONS | Divine Access | INDIRECT / ACTED TO SPARE MOSES FROM THE LORD - EXO 4:25 |
| Divine Encounter Level | INDIRECT | Matriarchal Classification | THE DELIVERER'S WIFE |
| Covenant Status | JOINED TO THE COVENANT PEOPLE | Known Miracles | THE SON CIRCUMCISED IN HASTE |
| Divine Commission | CONFIRMED | Threat Assessment | THE LORD'S WRATH AT THE UNCIRCUMCISED SON |
| Mission Status | FAITHFUL / MOSES SPARED | Archive Category | EXODUS / THE DELIVERER'S HOUSE |
What she did to turn away the LORD's wrath: CUT OFF HER SON'S FORESKIN WITH A FLINT
The words she spoke over Moses: A BRIDEGROOM OF BLOOD TO ME
The subject was one of the seven daughters of Jethro, priest of Midian. When Moses fled from Egypt and drove off the shepherds who troubled them at the well, their father received him, and gave the subject to him as wife.
She bore Moses two sons, Gershom and Eliezer, in the years he kept Jethro's flock in the land of Midian.
As they journeyed back to Egypt at God's call, the LORD met Moses at a lodging place and sought to put him to death, for his son had not been circumcised. The subject took a flint, circumcised her son, and touched Moses with it.
She said, Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me, and the LORD let him alone. By her swift act the deliverer was spared to carry out his mission.
Afterward Moses sent her and the two sons back to her father for a season, and Jethro brought them to him at the mountain of God, where they were reunited as Israel camped before Sinai.
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- A decisive act of obedience can spare a household from judgment.
- God takes seriously the signs of covenant He has commanded.
- Those who stand beside God's servants share in the weight of the calling.
