23. And I say to thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me. And if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will kill thy son, thy firstborn.
24. And it came to pass on the way, in the inn, that Jehovah came upon him, and sought to slay him.
25. Then Zipporah took a stone and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, A bloody husband indeed art thou to me!
26. And he let him go. Then she said, A bloody husband--because of the circumcision.