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QUESTION: Please Im confused by Exodus 2:24,25,26 ,thank you.

ANSWER: Hi Everaldo,
Well, I'm even more confused as there is no verse 26 in Exodus 2 and vv. 24-25 is pretty self-explanatory. Did you mean another chapter?

Please post another question with the correct reference and please ask a specific question so I can help you further.

Thanks,
Todd

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QUESTION: Sorry, I meant exodus 4:24,25,26 . thank you

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Everaldo,
I had asked you to ask a specific question rather than just throw out a passage of Scripture. Essentially God was mad with Moses because he hadn't circumcised his son (Gen. 17:9-14). In this passage, his wife Zipporah immediately circumcises their young son because she understood the danger to Moses by not bearing the sign of the covenant (Gen. 17:9-14). Her statement, "You are a husband of blood to me," suggests her own revulsion with this rite of circumcision, which Moses should have performed. The result, however, was God letting Moses go (v. 26). God's reaction shows the seriousness of the sign he had commanded.

An interesting side note is that the word translated "feet" is thought to be a euphemism for genitals (as in Deut. 28:57 where "womb" is literally "feet"), meaning that his wife touched his genitals with it.

Thanks for the question.

Todd

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My degrees and studies are mostly in Christian doctrine but I will answer questions having to do with almost any aspect of Christianity and The Bible.

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My experience consists of over 20 years as a Pastor, Youth Pastor, missionary, counselor, teacher, writer, Bible quizzer, and various other leadership positions. I've studied the Bible for over 20 years at 5 different schools/seminaries but I can explain things in simple terms anyone can understand and currently teach Sunday School to 1st-5th graders. I specialize in Christian apologetics (evidences for Christianity) and Polemics (debate denouncing false teachings), as well as understanding difficult verses, and topics such as heaven & hell, denominations/sects, false teachings/heresies/cults, the Holy Spirit, gifts of the Holy Spirit, spiritual warfare, apostolic reformation, emergent/emerging church, prosperity teaching, contradictions/discrepancies, charismatic studies, creation/evolution, Greek/Hebrew studies, end times, deliverance, the apocrypha/pseudepigrapha, etc. I daily answer questions on Global Media Outreach, AllExperts, YouTube, through email, and various personal websites where I have posted many Christian videos.

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Graduated from a private Christian High School, went to Nazarene Bible college and then Eastern Nazarene College (Boston) for Youth Ministry and Pastoral Studies/Christian Theology, transferred to Asbury College where I completed my degree in Christian Education and Missions, and most recently attending the Calvary Chapel Bible Institute.

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