Zipporah
In the
Bible,
Zipporah was
Moses's wife. Moses met Zipporah when fleeing from
Egypt. Her
father was
Jethro, a
priest of
Midian. Zipporah and Moses had two sons,
Gershom and Eliezer. At one point, as Moses was returning to
Egypt to confront
Pharaoh, Zipporah saved Moses' life. God was prepared to kill Moses, apparently because his firstborn son Gershom had not been
circumcisedd, so Zipporah performed the circumcision and touched Moses' feet with the
foreskin, saying, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me." God then spared Moses.
Her name is Hebrew for 'bird'.