Bible Highlights (from the book of Numbers) : Was Zipporah the Cushite wife of Moses in Numbers 12:1 ?

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  raymond frantz

  Was Zipporah the Cushite wife of Moses in Numbers 12:1 ?

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  "Now Mir′i·am and Aaron began to speak against Moses because of the Cush′ite wife he had married, for he had taken a Cush′ite wife." –Numbers 12:1

  Was Zipporah the wife mentioned in Numbers 12:1 or had Moses remarried ? Was she an Ethiopian as some translations suggest or a Cushite ? And why would that make any difference ?

  Some Bible commentators say that since Moses had been married to Zipporah for a long time she was not the one involved here, as any objection against her would have been raised long before. So they reason that Zipporah had died and Moses had remarried, this time selecting an Ethiopian woman, and that this remarriage was recent and raised the controversy. But the Bible does not say this, and the circumstances do not require such reasoning. Zipporah had been away from Moses, and now she rejoined him in the camp near Mount Sinai. It was soon after the camp began to move that the contention arose. Hence, while the marriage was not recent, the presence of Zipporah in the camp was.—Ex. 18:1-5.

  
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  Bobcat

  Is that Charlton Heston in a scene from "The Ten Commandments"? It kinda looks like him, but its been awhile since I've seen the movie. I wonder if Zipporah was Moses' "Cinnamon Girl "?

  Bobcat
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  Quarterback

  Moses's father in law was a Midianite. The Midianite tribe originated from one of Lot's daughters. She apparrently was the same Zipporah. It's quite possible that the Cushites (from Ethiopian) had some connection with the Midianites.
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  Vidiot

  Interestingly enough, in the Dreamworks movie The Prince of Egypt, Zipporah and her family were drawn/animated with considerably darker skin than Moses (Jethro was even voiced by Danny Glover, a very prominent African-American, which I'm sure was no coincidence).

  According to the "Zipporah" entry on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzipporah#Incident_at_the_Inn), "...the Midianites themselves were a dark-skinned people often called Kushim, the Hebrew word used to describe dark skinned Africans."
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  losingit

  That is Charleston Heston from 'The Ten Commandments' !

  It remains one of my favorite movies of all time! As a child I always watched it on Easter Sunday, looking forward to it every year. Now the networks play it on Saturday night. I could easily buy it on DVD but don't. It'd lose its allure.
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  Crazyguy

  The name or term for this woman sounds like she is from Ethiopia but its very close to the term or name refuring to the Midianites so in all reality its the same woman.