![]() In that case, why didn’t God just say, “Circumcise your son”? Why go all-Rambo on him? God had great plans for Moses. Wrong answer 3: It was a test – Moses had to prove himself faithful with his own house before he could be entrusted with the house of Israel. So were plenty of others yet God didn’t try to kill them. This is a good question that has attracted plenty of wrong answers: So what is going on here? Why did the Lord try to kill Moses? ![]() One moment God is calling Moses towards his destiny as Israel’s deliverer the next moment God is trying to kill him because he neglected to “snip the tip”! It’s stories like this that give God a reputation as a bipolar deity, all happy and loving one moment but furious and smiting the next. This is a stunning interruption to the narrative. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said. But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it. “Why did God try to kill Moses on the way to Egypt?” This question was recently put to me by a reader and it is based on the following passage:Īt a lodging place on the way, the Lord met Moses and was about to kill him.
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