So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.

So he let him alone. Then she said, A bridegroom of blood art thou , because of the circumcision.

And he let him go after she had said A bloody spouse art thou to me, because of the circumcision.

and He desisteth from him: then she said, 'A bridegroom of blood,' in reference to the circumcision.

So he let him go. Then she said, You are a husband of blood because of the circumcision.

So He let him alone. Then she said: 'A bridegroom of blood in regard of the circumcision.'

And he released him, after she had said, "You are a bloody spouse," because of the circumcision.

Et quum discederet ab illo, tunc illa dixit, Sponsus sanguinum ob circumcisionem.

So he let him go - i. e. God withdrew His visitation from Moses.
Moses sent Zipporah and her children back to Jethro before he went to Egypt, Exodus 18:2. The journey would have been delayed had he waited for the healing of the child.

So he let him go,.... That is, the Lord let Moses go; suffered him to go on his journey without any further interruption; as the Targums, "it", the angel, ceased from him, or left him; or the disease and trembling departed from him, as Aben Ezra, and he was quite well and easy; though Grotius, after Lyra, understands it of Zipporah, she departed from him, that is, from Moses, and returned to Midian again, as it seems she did; but this the grammatical construction of the words will not bear, being masculine, though sometimes the masculine is used of women, as in Exodus 1:21,
then she said, a bloody husband thou art because of the circumcision; this is repeated, partly to give the reason of her calling him a bloody husband, because of the circumcision, and partly because of her great joy on occasion of her husband's restoration to her by this means.

So he let him go--Moses recovered; but the remembrance of this critical period in his life would stimulate the Hebrew legislator to enforce a faithful attention to the rite of circumcision when it was established as a divine ordinance in Israel, and made their peculiar distinction as a people.

So he let him go - The destroying angel withdrew. But still Zipporah cannot forget, but will unreasonably call Moses a bloody husband, because he obliged her to circumcise the child; and upon this occasion, (it is probable) he sent them back to his father - in - law, that they might not create him any farther uneasiness. When we have any special service to do for God, we should remove that as far from us as we can, which is likely to be our hindrance: let the dead bury their dead, but follow thou me.