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Moses and his Ethiopian wife Zipporah (Mozes en zijn Ethiopische vrouw Sippora). Jacob Jordaens, c. 1650. Moses' wife is referred to as a "Cushite woman" in Numbers 12. Interpretations differ on whether this Cushite woman was one and the same as Zipporah, or another woman, and whether he was married to them simultaneously, or successively.
In Josephus' (first century) writings and medieval legend, Moses married Tharbis as his first wife. Jordaens' view is unknown, and the painting has been exhibited under titles without the name Zipporah. [5]: 248 Jordaens likely encountered the tale of Moses' wife in contemporary translations of the Bible and the writings of Josephus.
While Moses besieged the city of Meroë, Tharbis watched him lead the Egyptian army from within the city walls, and fell in love with him. He agreed to marry her if she would procure the deliverance of the city into his power. She did so immediately and Moses promptly married her. [4] The account of this expedition is also mentioned by Irenaeus ...
Zipporah – wife of Moses, daughter of Jethro. Exodus [201] Zuleika – Potiphar's wife and Asenath's mother. Asenath married Joseph, so she is the grandmother of Ephraim and Manasseh (Tribe of Joseph). She is given no name in the Bible, but is known as Zuleika (among other spellings) in Islamic and Jewish traditions.
Jethro's daughter, Zipporah, became Moses' wife after Moses fled Egypt for killing an Egyptian who was beating an enslaved Hebrew. Having fled to Midian, Moses intervened in a water-access dispute between Jethro's seven daughters and the local shepherds; Jethro consequently invited Moses into his home and offered him hospitality.
According to Hadith, she will be among the first women to enter Paradise because she accepted Moses's monotheism over Pharaoh's beliefs. The Qur'an mentions Asiya as an example to all Muslims. [18] [21] [22] Her supplication is mentioned in the Qur'an: And Allah citeth an example for those who believe: the wife of Pharaoh when she said: "My Lord!
Three years after his divorce from his first wife, Maples gave birth to the couple's only child together in 1993, Tiffany Trump (named after "Tiffany & Co"). He and Maples wed two months later.
DeMille preferred the spelling "Sephora", found in the Douay–Rheims Bible, for the name of Moses' wife, originally Zipporah in the Hebrew Bible and King James version. [28] To make it more euphonious, the name of Moses' Hebrew mother Jochebed was changed by DeMille to "Yochabel", which is a transliteration from Josephus' Greek text. [29]