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biblescholar · Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 5

Can someone explain this to me:

Exodus 4:24-27 "And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him. 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. 26 So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband [thou art], because of the circumcision.
27 And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him.
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Why did God want to kill Moses?
How did the circumcision change God's mind?

revsistahpeace · Joined: 13 Oct 2005 Posts: 38 Location: Tampa, FL

God was angry with Moses because of the sin of omission, not circumcising his son. Looking at Moses at this point in his life, he had married a Midianite woman (unequally yoked). Could his conscience (shame) be convicting him because of that marriage? But even if that were the case, he should've been obedient to the will of God in circumcising his son for after all he was his seed. Thanks to his wife who knew (how? we don't know except God Himself or Moses told her about his roots) who for necessities sake circumsized their son. What God wanted done was done.

Clive J. PIllay · Joined: 19 Mar 2005 Posts: 54 Location: South Africa

Check her genealogy

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Clive

administrator · Site Admin Joined: 17 Mar 2005 Posts: 163

Bill Dickens · Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 2:49 pm Post subject: God's Plot to Kill Moses

The passage from Exodus illustrates the danger of a writer having a fertile imagination. The depiction of Yaweh as some crazed Diety going ballistic about a ritualistic act like circumcision is difficult to accept. I'm not even sure this incident ever occured. It just doesn't make any sense.
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ebonyrose · Joined: 18 Mar 2005 Posts: 33

How about without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin.
Moses was still a murderer. According to God's word he deserved to die.

I will surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man. Whoever sheds man's blood, by man will his blood be shed, for in the image of God made he man. Genesis 9:5-6

Before grace every sin deserved a recompense reward. It didn't matter how long. The only way for God to forgive was by the shedding of blood.

This is just my thoughts.
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For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. (Jer. 29:11)

ebonyrose · Joined: 18 Mar 2005 Posts: 33

Clarification: After reading a few expositors, I was in agreement with this particular one. That was not my original thought, but I am in agreement. Here is the sight for more insight on the subject.

http://www.i-amfaithweb.net/god_kill_moses.htm
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For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. (Jer. 29:11)

Clive J. PIllay · Joined: 19 Mar 2005 Posts: 54 Location: South Africa

I really think we are reading too much into what is not there!!

Taking leave of his father-in-law, Moses journeyed to Egypt with Zipporah his wife and son Gershom. Along the way, the Lord was displeased with Moses and ‘tried’ to kill him. (Exod 4 v 24 – 26). If God really wanted to kill Moses, He could so easily have done so. This was merely a threat to show His disappointment for Moses’ neglect to circumcise Gershom, his son. Circumcision was a God given sign to Abraham and his descendants that the Covenant was everlasting. Moses would have known this. What therefore were the possible reasons why Moses neglected circumcision (a) Men tend to neglect religious duties when separated too long from the society of faithful believers. (b) He compromised with his wife who did not see the necessity of circumcision. (c) They were now on a long journey through the Wilderness and understandably a mother’s concern for infection of the wound in such circumstances. Moses was in a quandary. Not willing to offend his wife, yet knowing that circumcision was necessary as the seal of the Covenant, he hesitated to do the surgery. Zipporah as Midianite did not understand the Covenant conditions and probably considered circumcision barbaric or primitive. If circumcision must be done and with Moses’ hesitation to do the surgery, Zipporah grabbed a knife, performed the circumcision and in disgust threw the severed foreskin at Moses’ feet calling him ‘a bloody husband’. Thereafter, she took the child and returned to her father Jethro. Moses continued the journey alone and thereafter became re-united with his brother Aaron.

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Clive