Zipporah

Zipporah, the daughter of Jethro, was Moses' wife and the mother of his two sons, Gershom and Eliezer.

Zipporah was the wife of Moses and the daughter of Jethro (also known as Reuel), the priest of Midian. She first appears in the biblical narrative when Moses fled from Egypt and settled in Midian (Exo 2:21). Zipporah and Moses were married and had two sons, Gershom and Eliezer. In Exo 4:24-26, during Moses' return to Egypt, Zipporah circumcised their son and cast the foreskin at Moses' feet, saying, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!" This enigmatic event seems to have resolved a divine threat against Moses' life. Later, when Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt, Zipporah and her sons were sent back to Jethro (Exo 18:2). They were reunited with Moses when Jethro brought them to him in the wilderness (Exo 18:5-6). As the wife of Moses, Zipporah played a significant role in his personal life and, by extension, in the history of Israel.

A female bird. Reuel’s daughter, who became the wife of Moses (Ex. 2:21). In consequence of the event recorded in Ex. 4:24-26, she and her two sons, Gershom and Eliezer, when so far on the way with Moses toward Egypt, were sent back by him to her own kinsfolk, the Midianites, with whom they sojourned till Moses afterwards joined them (18:2-6).