Neville Goddard on Exodus 4:24-26 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Exodus 4 in context

Scripture Focus

24And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him.

25Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.

26So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.

Exodus 4:24-26

Biblical Context

In Exodus 4:24-26, an encounter on the road shows God’s demand for obedience to the covenant; Zipporah circumcises their son, and the crisis is resolved as Moses is aligned with the sign of the covenant.

Neville's Inner Vision

In the stillness of your awareness, the 'Lord' that seeks to kill represents a moment when your current state of consciousness resists the covenant of your I AM. Zipporah’s act is the mind’s refusal to yield to false identifications; the removal of the foreskin is the cleansing of belief that you are separate from the divine law. The phrase 'bloody husband' marks the cost of clinging to old notions; yet through that costly act the tension dissolves and you are released to go forward. This is not a history lesson but a teaching: whenever fear, doubt, or sense of limitation confront your forward journey, you can perform the inner circumcision—cut away the thought that you are governed by circumstance, and seal the mind with fidelity to the covenant. When you align with I AM—the true you—the perceived gatekeeper retreats, and the path opens as if the Lord has let you go, because your inner law is now intact.

Practice This Now

Assume the state 'I AM in complete covenant now.' Cut away a false belief by symbolically removing a mental 'foreskin' of fear; then feel-imprint the feeling of release and forward motion.