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Numbers 12:12
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Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb.
Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.
Please do not let her be like the dead, whose flesh is half consumed when coming out from the womb of its mother."
Don't let her be like a baby who is born dead. (Sometimes a baby is born with half of its flesh eaten away.)"
Do not let her be like a baby born dead, whose flesh is half-consumed when it comes out of its mother's womb!"
"Oh, do not let her be like one dead, already half decomposed when he comes from his mother's womb."
"Oh, do not let her be like a dead person, whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes out of his mother's womb!"
Let her not, I pray thee, be as one dead, of whome the flesh is halfe consumed, when he commeth out of his mothers wombe.
Oh, do not let her be like one dead, whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes from his mother's womb!"
Don't let Miriam's flesh rot away like a child born dead!"
Please don't let her be like a stillborn baby, with its body half eaten away when it comes out of its mother's womb!"
Let her not be as one stillborn, half of whose flesh is consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb.
Don't let her lose her skin like a baby who is born dead." (Sometimes a baby will be born like that, with half of its skin eaten away.)
Let her not be as one dead, whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes out of his mother's womb."
Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mothers womb.
Don't let her become like something born dead with half its flesh eaten away."
Please don’t let her be like a dead baby whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”
I pray, do not let her be as one who is dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb.
that she be not as one that commeth deed out of his mothers wombe: It hath eaten vp half hir flesh allready.
Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.
Let her not be as one dead, whose flesh is half wasted when he comes out from the body of his mother.
Oh, let her not be as one dead, of who the fleshe is halfe consumed when he commeth out of his mothers whom.
Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.'
Let her not bee as one dead, of whom the flesh is halfe consumed, when he commeth out of his mothers wombe.
Let her not be as it were like death, as an abortion coming out of his mother’s womb, when the disease devours the half of the flesh.
Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.
Please do not let her be like a stillborn infant whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb."
let her not, I pray thee, be as [one] dead, when in his coming out from the womb of his mother -- the half of his flesh is consumed.'
Don't let her, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb.
Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed at the time of his birth.
Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb.
Please do not let her be as one dead, whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb!"
Don't let her be like a stillborn baby, already decayed at birth."
Let her not be like one who is dead, whose flesh is half eaten away when he is born!"‘
Do not let her be like one stillborn, whose flesh is half consumed when it comes out of its mother's womb."
Let her not, I beseech thee, remain like the still-born, - which when it is born of its mother, the half of its flesh is consumed.
Let her not be as one dead, and as an abortive that is cast forth from the mother’s womb. Lo, now one half of her flesh is consumed with the leprosy.
Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb."
"Oh, do not let her be like one dead, whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes from his mother's womb!"
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
as one dead: Psalms 88:4, Psalms 88:5, Ephesians 2:1-5, Colossians 2:13, 1 Timothy 5:6
of whom: Job 3:16, Psalms 58:8, 1 Corinthians 15:8
Reciprocal: Leviticus 13:2 - the plague of leprosy Job 13:28 - And he
Cross-References
And fro thennus he passide forth to the hil Bethel, that was ayens the eest, and settide there his tabernacle, hauynge Bethel fro the west, and Hay fro the eest. And he bildide also there an auter to the Lord, and inwardli clepide his name.
Sotheli hungur was maad in the lond; and Abram yede doun in to Egipt, to be a pilgrime ther, for hungur hadde maistrie in the lond.
Abraham answerde, Y thouyte with me, and seide, in hap the drede of God is not in this place; and thei schulen sle me for my wijf;
And whanne he was axid of men of that place of his wijf, he answarde, Sche is my sistir; for he dredde to knowleche that sche was felouschipid to hym in matrymonye, and gesside lest peraduenture thei wolden sle him for the fairnesse of hir.
And Dauid seide in his herte, Sumtyme Y schal falle in o dai in the hond of Saul; whether it is not betere, that Y fle, and be sauyd in the lond of Filisteis, that Saul dispeire, and cesse to seke me in alle the endis of Israel; therfor fle we hise hondis.
He that dredith a man, schal falle soon; he that hopith in the Lord, shal be reisid.
And nyle ye drede hem that sleen the bodi; for thei moun not sle the soule; but rather drede ye hym, that mai lese bothe soule and bodi in to helle.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Let her not be as one dead,.... As she was in a ceremonial sense, being to be shut up and excluded from the society of people, and as defiling by touching as a dead carcase; and, in a natural sense, her flesh, by the disease upon her, was become as dead flesh, putrid and rotten, and unless miraculously cured it would issue in her death:
of whom the flesh is half consumed, when he cometh out of his mother's womb; like an abortive, or one stillborn, that has been dead some time in its mother's womb; and therefore when brought forth its flesh is almost wasted away, or at least half consumed: and in such a plight and condition was Miriam already, or quickly would be, through the force of her disease.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Miriam, as a prophetess (compare Exodus 15:20-21) no less than as the sister of Moses and Aaron, took the first rank among the women of Israel; and Aaron may be regarded as the ecclesiastical head of the whole nation. But instead of being grateful for these high dignities they challenged the special vocation of Moses and the exclusive authority which God had assigned to him. Miriam was the instigator, from the fact that her name stands conspicuously first Numbers 12:1, and that the punishment Numbers 12:10 fell on her alone. She probably considered herself as supplanted, and that too by a foreigner. Aaron was misled this time by the urgency of his sister, as once before Exodus 32:0 by that of the people.
Numbers 12:1
The Ethiopian woman whom he had married - (Hebrew, âCushite,â compare Genesis 2:13; Genesis 10:6) It is likely that Zipporah Exodus 2:21 was dead, and that Miriam in consequence expected to have greater influence than ever with Moses. Her disappointment at his second marriage would consequently be very great.
The marriage of Moses with a woman descended from Ham was not prohibited, so long as she was not of the stock of Canaan (compare Exodus 34:11-16); but it would at any time have been offensive to that intense nationality which characterized the Jews. The Christian fathers note in the successive marriage of Moses with a Midianite and an Ethiopian a foreshadowing of the future extension to the Gentiles of Godâs covenant and its promises (compare Psalms 45:9 ff; Song of Solomon 1:4 ff); and in the complaining of Miriam and Aaron a type of the discontent of the Jews because of such extension: compare Luke 15:29-30.
Numbers 12:2
Hath the Lord ... - i. e. Is it merely, after all, by Moses that the Lord hath spoken?
Numbers 12:3
The man Moses was very meek - In this and in other passages in which Moses no less unequivocally records his own faults (compare Numbers 20:12 ff; Exodus 4:24 ff; Deuteronomy 1:37), there is the simplicity of one who bare witness of himself, but not to himself (compare Matthew 11:28-29). The words are inserted to explain how it was that Moses took no steps to vindicate himself, and why consequently the Lord so promptly intervened.
Numbers 12:8
Mouth to mouth - i. e. without the intervention of any third person or thing: compare the marginal references.
Even apparently - Moses received the word of God direct from Him and plainly, not through the medium of dream, vision, parable, dark saying, or such like; compare the marginal references.
The similitude of the Lord shall he behold - But, âNo man hath seen God at any time,â says John (John 1:18 : compare 1 Timothy 6:16, and especially Exodus 33:20 ff). It was not therefore the Beatific Vision, the unveiled essence of the Deity, which Moses saw on the one hand. Nor was it, on the other hand, a mere emblematic representation (as in Ezekiel 1:26 ff, Daniel 7:9), or an Angel sent as a messenger. It was the Deity Himself manifesting Himself so as to be cognizable to mortal eye. The special footing on which Moses stood as regards God is here laid down in detail, because it at once demonstrates that the supremacy of Moses rested on the distinct appointment of God, and also that Miriam in contravening that supremacy had incurred the penalty proper to sins against the theocracy.
Numbers 12:12
As one dead - leprosy was nothing short of a living death, a poisoning of the springs, a corrupting of all the humors, of life; a dissolution little by little of the whole body, so that one limb after another actually decayed and fell away. Compare the notes at Leviticus 13:0.
Numbers 12:13
Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee - Others render these words: âOh not so; heal her now, I beseech Thee.â
Numbers 12:14
If her father ... - i. e. If her earthly parent had treated her with contumely (compare Deuteronomy 25:9) she would feel for a time humiliated, how much more when God has visited her thus?
