Keluaran 4:25

4:25 But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off the foreskin of her son and touched it to Moses’ feet, ¹  and said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood ²  to me.”

Yosua 5:3

5:3 So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelites on the Hill of the Foreskins. ³ 

Yosua 5:1

5:1 When all the Amorite kings on the west side of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the seacoast heard how the Lord had dried up the water of the Jordan before the Israelites while they ⁴  crossed, they lost their courage and could not even breathe for fear of the Israelites. ⁵ 

1 Samuel 18:25-27

18:25 Saul replied, “Here is what you should say to David: ‘There is nothing that the king wants as a price for the bride except a hundred Philistine foreskins, so that he can be avenged of his ⁶  enemies.’” (Now Saul was thinking that he could kill David by the hand of the Philistines.)

18:26 So his servants told David these things and David agreed ⁷  to become the king’s son-in-law. Now the specified time had not yet expired ⁸  18:27 when David, along with his men, went out ⁹  and struck down two hundred Philistine men. David brought their foreskins and presented all of them to the king so he could become the king’s son-in-law. Saul then gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.

1 Samuel 18:2

18:2 Saul retained David ¹⁰  on that day and did not allow him to return to his father’s house.

1 Samuel 3:14

3:14 Therefore I swore an oath to the house of Eli, ‘The sin of the house of Eli can never be forgiven by sacrifice or by grain offering.’”

[4:25]  ¹ tn Heb “to his feet.” The referent (Moses) has been specified in the translation for clarity. The LXX has “and she fell at his feet” and then “the blood of the circumcision of my son stood.” But it is clear that she caused the foreskin to touch Moses’ feet, as if the one were a substitution for the other, taking the place of the other (see U. Cassuto, Exodus, 60).

[4:25]  ² sn U. Cassuto explains that she was saying, “I have delivered you from death, and your return to life makes you my bridegroom a second time, this time my blood bridegroom, a bridegroom acquired through blood” (Exodus, 60-61).

[5:3]  ³ tn Or “Gibeath Haaraloth.” This name means “Hill of the Foreskins.” Many modern translations simply give the Hebrew name, although an explanatory note giving the meaning of the name is often included.

[5:3]  sn The name given to the place, Hill of the Foreskins was an obvious reminder of this important event.

[5:1]  ⁴ tc Another textual tradition has, “while we crossed.”

[5:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “their heart[s] melted and there was no longer in them breathe because of the sons of Israel.”

[18:25]  ⁶ tn Heb “the king’s.”

[18:26]  ⁷ tn Heb “and it was acceptable in the eyes of David.”

[18:26]  ⁸ tn Heb “the days were not fulfilled.”

[18:27]  ⁹ tn Heb “arose and went.”

[18:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “him”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.