So the Lord let him alone. (At that time she said, “A bridegroom of blood,” referring to the circumcision.)

“If a thief is caught breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no blood guilt for him.

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

If the sun has risen on him, then there is blood guilt for him. A thief must surely make full restitution; if he has nothing, then he will be sold for his theft.