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Background to Exodus 4:24 — circumcision as covenant sign and Moses's failure to circumcise his son.

20 Questions with Pastor Mike (Episode 21) 00:09:13 – 00:10:13

Question from Dave Baran about why God sought to kill Moses in Exodus 4:24 and what Zipporah meant by "bloody husband."

God is forming a new nation of Israel out of Egypt. Circumcision was the covenant sign from Abraham onward, representing faithfulness to the covenant and symbolically cutting away the flesh. Failure to circumcise was tantamount to rejecting the covenant. Moses had apparently neglected this for his son, possibly due to his time outside Israel and possibly because of Zipporah's resistance.

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