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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God's Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

These three verses are among the most difficult to translate in the entire book of Exodus. They record an ancient tradition about which we know very little. They raise questions that we cannot easily answer: Why did the Lord try to kill “him”? Who is “him”? Why did Zipporah suddenly circumcise her son? What is meant by “bridegroom of blood”? There are no serious textual problems here, and so the translator will be tempted to translate literally without struggling
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