BRIDEGROOM OF BLOOD

BRIDEGROOM OF BLOOD is a dark, cinematic retelling of one of the strangest and most abrupt episodes in the Book of Exodus.

Moses has just been commanded to return to Egypt. He carries the staff. He carries the message. Pharaoh is waiting.

Then, without warning, the story stops on the road.

According to Exodus 4:24–26, at a lodging place during the journey, Yahweh meets Moses and seeks to kill him.

The text gives almost no explanation.

Zipporah reacts immediately. She takes a flint, circumcises her son, touches the foreskin to “his feet,” and declares:

“Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me.”

Then Yahweh lets him alone.

And the story simply continues.

BRIDEGROOM OF BLOOD takes those three unsettling verses and turns them into a theatrical scene: a dark roadside lodging, Moses suddenly in danger, Zipporah realizing something is terribly wrong, a flint in her hand, and a mysterious divine threat hanging over the man who had just been chosen to confront Pharaoh.

The song intentionally preserves the uncertainty of the passage. Exodus does not clearly explain why Moses is targeted, exactly whose “feet” are touched, or the full meaning of Zipporah’s strange declaration. The circumcision ends the crisis, but the text leaves the reader to wrestle with the rest.

Rather than trying to smooth over those questions, BRIDEGROOM OF BLOOD stays inside the mystery and lets the scene remain as strange as Exodus presents it.

Before the plagues.

Before the Red Sea.

Before Moses stands before Pharaoh.

There was blood on the road to Egypt.

Biblical source: Exodus 4:24–26

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