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Moses meets Zipporah when fleeing from Egypt. Her father is Jethro, a priest of Midian. Zipporah and Moses have two sons, Gershom and Eliezer. At one point, as Moses is returning to Egypt to confront Pharaoh, Zipporah saves Moses's life. God is prepared to kill Moses, apparently because his firstborn son Gershom had not been circumcised, so Zipporah performs the circumcision and touched Moses's feet with the foreskin, saying, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me." God then spares Moses.
It is unclear whether Zipporah is identical to the Cushite (i.e. black) wife that Moses takes according to the Book of NumbersThe Book of Numbers is the fourth of the books of the Pentateuch, called in the Hebrew ba-midbar , i. in the wilderness. In the Septuagint version it is called Arithmoi ("Numbers"), and this name is now the usual title of the book. It is so called because. Jewish tradition holds the two to be identical, but much modern interpretation generally does not.