Moses and Zipporah's unnamed second son (Section 071)

Family: Israelites · Role: son of Moses and Zipporah · First appears: Moses Marries Zipporah

In the third year, Zipporah bore Moses’s second son. On the journey to Egypt, Moses intended to raise him as an Israelite; when Satan, in serpent form, swallowed Moses, Zipporah recognized that the son had not been circumcised and circumcised him to save Moses.

Relationship record

Life events

• Zipporah bore Moses a second son.(Moses Marries Zipporah)
  • With: Moses Zipporah
  • “Zipporah nursed her first child for two years, and in the third year she bore a second son.”
• Moses set out for Egypt, intending to raise his second son as an Israelite.(Moses Marries Zipporah)
  • With: Moses Zipporah
  • “Remembering his compact with Jethro, Moses realized that his father-in-law would not permit him to circumcise this one, too, and he determined to return to Egypt, that he might have the opportunity of bringing up his second son as an Israelite.”
• Satan, in serpent form, swallowed Moses, and Zipporah circumcised their second son to save him.(Moses Marries Zipporah)
  • With: Moses Zipporah Satan
  • “On the journey thither, Satan appeared to him in the guise of a serpent, and swallowed Moses down to his extremities. Zipporah knew by this token that the thing had happened because her second son had not been circumcised, and she hastened to make good the omission.”

Moses Marries Zipporah

• parent: Moses “Zipporah nursed her first child for two years, and in the third year she bore a second son.”
• parent: Zipporah “Zipporah nursed her first child for two years, and in the third year she bore a second son.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Legends of the Jews, Volume II. Made with Rho MD.