Zipporah

Zipporah was the wife of Moses... I have to give interpretation here because there is conflicting interpretations... the bible only has scripture about Zipporah in Exodus 4 and Exodus 18... surely you should read and determine what you gather for yourself...

Moses married Zipporah from the land of Midian.. her father was Jethro, he was a priest... Moses met her when he fled from the land of Egypt after he killed an Egyptian and was confronted about it by two Hebrews...

she saved the life of Moses... in Jewish law... the male child was to be circumcised on the 8th day... this is the outward sign of man accepting the covenant with God.. and as Moses was working on the whole freeing the people of Israel from Egypt thing... he overlooked this... and God was going to kill him.. (Exodus 4:24-26) but Zipporah, his wife.. took a flint knife and cut off the foreskin of her son and threw it on Moses' foot (although some interpret feet to mean on his genitals), covering him in the blood.. and God relented... and didn't kill him..

one of the roles of a wife is to cover her husband.. sometimes he might get so caught up in the day to day working (as providing is their role) that they often forget details.. and if we as wives don't keep them covered... God may strike them down... I don't think women fully understand the role of the wife... sometimes we feel as though our role is not as important because a man is to be the head and we desire to control everything... but that is not our position... that is the responsiblity of the man... but imagine if we are not doing our part... what God has ordained for us to do... covering him in prayer... supporting him in his decisions... (even if we don't really agree) I think women don't realize that your husband will not be all that he can be if you are not all that you are supposed to be...

then.. in chapter 18 (still in Exodus) Moses sends Zipporah back to her father... now that is really disturbing to me... because this is the last time that she is mentioned... and I am wondering if he sent her back to her father to live forever...

later in numbers 12 it says Moses was married to a Cushite woman... now I had always assumed these two women were the same woman but I am unsure if these are the same woman... I am not sure if Cush and Midian would be the same place... some scholars say they are the same woman... others say they are not...

if they are the same woman, Moses later had to deal with Miriam and Aaron being mad about him marrying a dark skinned woman and God came to the rescue and struck Miriam with leprosy... Moses prayed it off of her but it was a lesson hard learned I am sure...

my thought is that while she was not an Israelite woman she was obviously a woman that served the God of Israel.. she was a good wife... there is nothing negative written about her at all... she was a woman that covered her husband in prayer and in action... she dealt with racism and hatred from her own husband's family... above all.. .she was a woman of God...