Img. ID: 615
Fol. 12v:
Top right margin: the legs of the youthful bare-headed Moses are swallowed by a winged monster with tail and claws (Moses’ head is flaked off).
Inscribed:
ויבלע משה מרגליו עד המילה
כי לא חתך מבנו הערלה
“It swallowed Moses from his legs up to his circumcised (genitals), because he did not cut off his son’s foreskin (i.e. did not circumcise him).”
Middle right margin: Zipporah kneeling circumcising with a stone a naked infant lying on a cushion.
Inscribed:
ותאמר צפורה חתן דמים אתה לי
כמעט (המות גרמת) לבעלי
“Zipporah said: ‘you (Moses) are a bridegroom of blood to me (Ex. 4:25), you (dragon) almost (caused) my husband (to die)’.”
Lower right margin: Zipporah and her two sons riding an ass on the way toEgypt.
Inscribed:
ותקח צפורה את שני בניה
ותרכיבם על החמור לפניה
“Zipporah took her two sons and sat them on the ass before her.”
Middle, lower margin: on his way back toEgypt, Moses meeting Aaron and embracing him. Behind Aaron a lance with a satchel hanging on it.
Inscribed:
וירא משה מרחוק כי אחיו הוא
וירץ לקראתו ויחבקהו
“Moses saw from afar that it was his brother, he ran towards him and embraced him (Gen. 33:4).”