The Prince of Egypt is one of the best DreamWorks pictures ever. It's an engaging and emotional telling of the classic Bible story and, all around, is a fantastic film. One of the most beautiful women ever animated in the movie is Tzipporah. Let's delve into her story and explore a unique Sephora collection inspired by her character.
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Tzipporah: A Woman of Strength and Beauty
Tzipporah is the wife of Moses and the deuteragonist in the DreamWorks film, The Prince of Egypt. She is independent, kind, determined, and brave. She loves her family fiercely but can come off teasing at times, regardless, she will go to great lengths to protect them (and herself) when threatened.
When Tzipporah is captured at the start of the film, she is hostile and aggressive. But later in the film, when Moses gets to know her, her hostility melts away into sarcasm and playfulness. She proves to be a loyal, loving wife to Moses, a kind sister-in-law to Moses' siblings (Tzipporah is shown to be especially close with Moses' sister Miriam).
Tzipporah is an extremely attractive and beautiful young woman of average height. She is dark-skinned, has high cheekbones, and a thin nose. Her curly, dark hair is waist length. She wears it tied back in a thick ponytail with four small braids on the sides of her face. Like the rest of her family, she has honey brown, almost golden eyes. Her outfit consists of a sleeveless teal shirt with a matching skirt and light blue sash.
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Tzipporah is first seen in the film as a present to Rameses II (assumedly a concubine) from Hotep and Huy, who call her a "desert flower". Rameses approaches her to "examine" her and she tries to bite him. When Rameses amends his statement and calls her a "desert cobra", Moses jokes about him "not being much of a snake charmer". Rameses jokingly gives her to Moses, who resists as he pushes him towards her. Tzipporah remarks that she won't be given to anyone and calls Moses a "pampered palace brat". She then retorts that they don't deserve any respect and breaks free from Hotep in an effort to escape.
Moses grabs a hold of the rope she is tied to and orders her to hold still. However, Tzipporah struggles and demands that he let go, which he does, making her fall into a small pool behind her. Rameses has Tzipporah sent to Moses's room and appoints him as Royal Chief Architect. The Queen looks on, ashamed of how Moses has humiliated Tzipporah, which makes Moses regret what he did. He goes to his room to find Tzipporah and apologize, but finds a servant tied up instead. After discovering Tzipporah sneaking away with a camel, Moses helps her escape by distracting two guards.
After Tzipporah returns home to Midian, she finds her sisters "trying to get [a] funny man out of the well". At first believing her sisters to be playing pretend, she jokes that she never heard "that one" before. But she is soon shocked to hear someone cry out from the bottom of the well. Tzipporah begins to pull him up with a rope but discovers that this "funny man" is actually Moses. She spitefully lets go of the rope and saunters away, leading one younger sister to explain to the others how that sort of behavior is exactly why Tzipporah will never get married.
As Jethro welcomes Moses, Tzipporah sarcastically tells him that Jethro is the high priest of Midian as well as her father, alluding to how she is the royalty now and he is the one with no identity. That night at the banquet, Tzipporah is incredulous and confused when she hears Moses admit that he has done nothing honorable in his life. As time passes, Moses remains in Midian and becomes close to Tzipporah. Eventually, the two fall in love and are married by Jethro. After Moses confronts God, he runs to Tzipporah and tells her of the encounter and of his plan to set his people free.
Together, Tzipporah and Moses confront Rameses (who has succeeded his father Seti as Pharaoh) in his palace. She stands by his side as Moses performs his first miracle: turning his staff into a cobra. As Tzipporah and Moses leave the palace and make their way towards the Hebrew encampment, Moses is knocked down into a mud pit by a handful of mud thrown by one of the angered slaves. Tzipporah rushes to his side and defends him against the accusations of his brother, Aaron. Moses, however, agrees with his brother, admitting how he was narrow-minded and oblivious to the plight of the Hebrews.
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When Moses sees Rameses on the Nile, he approaches the river and tells Ramsese to let his people go. When Ramsese send his soldiers to bring Moses to him Tzipporah attemps to defend him but Aaron holds her back. However, God instructs Moses to take his staff and with it, turns its waters into blood. Tzipporah runs to its banks only to look in awe along with Aaron and Miriam. Tzipporah is later seen after the destruction of the plagues, full of hope after hearing that the Hebrews had been freed by Pharaoh. She, Moses, Miriam, and Aaron lead the Hebrews out of Egypt and to the Red Sea. After the waters collapse and engulf Pharaoh's army, Tzipporah embraces Moses and then Miriam. She is seen walking with Moses, Miriam, and Aaron to lead the Hebrews out of Egypt and to the Promised Land. She stops Moses as they go, telling him, "Look. Look at your people, Moses.
After receiving a vision and message from God, Moses and Tzipporah make their way to Egypt and free his family. She is first introduced to being captured by the soldiers and presented to Prince Ramses as a wife. However, he is disgusted by her when Tzipporah bites his hand. Instead, he passes her on to Moses. However, he allows her to escape back to her family by sending the guards off her track by sending them the other way to look for her. She later comes to her sisters who need help getting a man (Moses) out of a well. At first, Tzipporah thinks they are playing but she sees they are telling the truth when she sees there is s man really trapped down there. She goes to help him out but when Tzipporah sees that it is Moses, she quickly tosses him back in the well in a panic.
Over the course of his time there, when Moses becomes a shephard, he and Tzipporah hardly get along but they grow close with one another. One day, after encountering God in the form of a fiery bush, Moses announces he is going to Egypt to free his people from slavery. Tzipporah accompanies him to the palace, where they find that Moses' adoptive brother, Rameses took over after their father's death. Moses begs his brother to let his people go but Rameses refuses. After the death of the firstborn children in Egypt apart from the Israelites, Rameses allows them to leave. However, he sends a legion of armies after the escaping slaves. Fortunately, God opens the Black Sea, allowing Tzipporah, her family and people to make it out of Egypt and into the Promised Land.
The Prince of Egypt Sephora Collection
The idea came to my mind recently, I wonder if there were any toys or dolls made for this film when it came out?? Answer: YES. Yes there were. A few. Not many, but there is a doll at least of one of the most beautiful (In my opinion) women ever animated, Tzipporah. Okay I could gush forever about how beautiful this doll is. She looks just like the character in the movie, 100% accuracy. Just look at the absolutely stunning details on that face mold!
She can also sit, but pretty awkwardly, and that brings us to the only real problem with this doll: Articulation. She can turn at the waist, and her arms can go up and down at the shoulders. Her knees are “clicky knees”. Its extremely unfortunate when you compare her to the quality of the Disney Store dolls, which are amazingly articulated. But all in all she does look fantastic, every last detail is perfect.
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Tzipporah Doll
Imagine a Sephora collection inspired by Tzipporah, capturing her essence through colors and textures that reflect her strength, beauty, and the desert landscape of her origins. Here's what a potential collection could include:
- Eyeshadow Palette: A palette featuring earthy tones like golden browns, deep teals, and shimmering sands to create captivating eye looks.
- Lip Colors: Rich, hydrating lipsticks and glosses in shades of berry and nude, reminiscent of the desert flora.
- Highlighter: A radiant highlighter to capture Tzipporah's golden glow.
- Accessories: Perhaps a brush set with teal handles or a makeup bag adorned with desert-inspired patterns.
This collection would not only pay homage to a beloved character but also empower individuals to embrace their own strength and beauty, just like Tzipporah.
In the original story, Tzipporah has a negative relationship with both Aaron and Miriam, who both disapprove of their brother's marriage to her.
While the Israelites/Hebrews were captives in Egypt, Moses killed an Egyptian who was striking a Hebrew, for which offense Pharaoh sought to kill Moses. Moses therefore fled from Egypt and arrived in Midian. One day while he sat by a well, Jethro's daughters came to water their father's flocks. Other shepherds arrived and drove the girls away, so that they could water their own flocks first. Moses defended the girls and watered their flocks. Upon their return home, their father asked them, "How is it that you have come home so early today?" The girls answered, "An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds; he even drew water for us and watered the flock." "Where is he then?", Jethro asked them. "Why did you leave the man?
After God commanded Moses to return to Egypt to free the Israelites, Moses took his wife and sons and started his journey. On the road, they stayed at an inn, where God came to kill Moses. Zipporah quickly circumcised her son with a sharp stone and touched Moses' feet with the foreskin, saying "Surely you are a husband of blood to me!" God then left Moses alone (Exodus 4:24-26). After Moses succeeded in leading the Israelites out of Egypt, and won a battle against Amalek, Jethro came to the Hebrew camp in the wilderness of Sinai, bringing with him Zipporah and their two sons, Gershom and Eliezer. The Bible does not say when Zipporah and her sons rejoined Jethro, only that after he heard of what God did for the Israelites, he brought Moses' family to him. The most common translation is that Moses sent her away, but another grammatically permissible translation is that she sent things or persons, perhaps the announcement of the victory over Amalek.[6] The word that makes this difficult is shelucheiha, the sendings [away] of her (Ex.
Moses' wife is referred to as a "Cushite woman" in Numbers 12. Interpretations differ on whether this Cushite woman [he] was one and the same as Zipporah, or another woman, and whether he was married to them simultaneously, or successively.[7][8] In the story, Aaron and Miriam criticize Moses' marriage to a Cushite woman. This criticism displeases God, who punishes Miriam with tzaraath (often glossed as leprosy). Cushites were of the ancestry of either Kush (Nubia) in northeast Africa, or Arabians. The sons of Ham, mentioned within the Book of Genesis, have been identified with nations in Africa (Ethiopia, Egypt, Libya), the Levant (Canaan), and Arabia. The text of Numbers preserves only consonants. Jewish reading traditions pronounce the description of Moses's wife as "kushit" meaning "the Cushite woman". "Cushite woman" becomes Αἰθιόπισσα in the Greek Septuagint (3rd century BCE)[13] and Aethiopissa in the Latin Vulgate Bible version (4th century). Alonso de Sandoval, 17th century Jesuit, reasoned that Zipporah and the Cushite woman was the same person, and that she was black.
Here is a table summarizing key events in Zipporah's life:
| Event | Description |
|---|---|
| Meeting Moses | Saved by Moses from shepherds at a well in Midian. |
| Marriage | Marries Moses after he becomes a shepherd in Midian. |
| Journey to Egypt | Accompanies Moses to confront Pharaoh and free the Israelites. |
| Red Sea Crossing | Witnesses the miracle of the Red Sea and leads the Israelites to freedom. |
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