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Miriam and Moses

How Miriam and Moses are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.

How they are linked

  • Miriam and Moses were siblings.

    Miriam was the sister of Moses and Aaron. When she was struck with leprosy for speaking against Moses, he cried to the Lord for her, "Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee".

    Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister

    Numbers 26:59, King James Version

    Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses

    Numbers 12:1, King James Version

    Where they cross: Numbers 12:10-15

Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.

Every passage, in order

Numbers 12:1

1And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.

Numbers 12:10-15

10And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.

11And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned.

12Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother’s womb.

13And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee.

14And the Lord said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again.

15And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again.

Numbers 26:59

59And the name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.

King James Version

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