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ETHIOPIAN WOMAN . According to Numbers 12:1 (JE [Note: Jewish Encyclopedia.] ), when the children of Israel were at Hazeroth, Miriam and Aaron ‘spake against’ Moses on account of his marriage with an Ethiopian (RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘Cushite’) woman. As the ‘Ethiopian woman’ is mentioned nowhere else, and the death of Moses’ wife Zipporah is not recorded, some of the early interpreters thought the two must be identical; and this view is favoured by the Jewish expositors. But it is more likely that a black slave-girl is meant, and that the fault found by Miriam and Aaron was with the indignity of such a union. It may perhaps be inferred from the context that the marriage was of recent occurrence.
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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Ethiopian Woman'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdb/e/ethiopian-woman.html. 1909.
Hastings, James. Entry for 'Ethiopian Woman'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdb/e/ethiopian-woman.html. 1909.
