Miriam was shut up outside of the camp seven days, and the people didn’t travel until Miriam was brought in again.
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Miriam was shut up outside of the camp seven days, and the people didn’t travel until Miriam was brought in again.
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And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again.
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And Miriam was shut up without the camp seven days; and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again.
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Passages linked to Numbers 12:15 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Deuteronomy 24:8-9 Be careful in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently and do according to all that the Levitical priests teach you. As I commanded them, so you shall observe to do. Remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam, by the way as you came out of Egypt.
- Lamentations 3:32 For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
- Micah 6:4 For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage. I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
- Micah 7:8-9 Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me. I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light. I will see his righteousness.
- Habakkuk 3:2 Yahweh, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds, Yahweh. Renew your work in the middle of the years. In the middle of the years make it known. In wrath, you remember mercy.
- Genesis 9:21-23 He drank of the wine and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent. Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn’t see their father’s nakedness.
- Exodus 20:12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Num 12:15 And Miriam was shut out from the…
Num 12:15 And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in [again].
Ver. 15. And the people journeyed not.] But stayed for her restoration. She had once stayed for Moses, saith Jarchi, when he was cast into the river, {Exo 2:4} therefore the people stay for her. There is a memorandum set upon this leprosy of Miriam, {Deu 24:9} like as afterwards was upon Lot’s wife’s transformation. {Luk 17:32}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Which was a testimony of respect to her both…
Which was a testimony of respect to her both from God and from the people, God so ordering it, partly lest she should be overwhelmed by such a public rebuke from God, and partly lest, she being a prophetess, together with her person, the gift of prophecy should come into contempt.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Miriam was shut out of the camp seven…
And Miriam was shut out of the camp seven days,.... And so in later times lepers dwelt alone, and in a separate house, as long as the leprosy was upon them, see Ch2 26:21; Miriam no doubt was healed at once, but, as a punishment for her sin, she was obliged to keep out of the camp of Israel for such a space of time:
and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again; partly out of respect unto her, she being a prophetess, and one that went before them, and led them with Moses and Aaron, Mic 6:4; and partly for want of the cloud to direct them, which had departed at a distance from them.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Journeyed not - Which was a testimony of respect…
Journeyed not - Which was a testimony of respect to her both from God and from the people, God so ordering it, partly lest she should be overwhelmed by such a publick rebuke from God, and partly lest, she being a prophetess, the gift of prophesy should come into contempt.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Num 12:15. Journeyed not — Which was a testimony…
Num 12:15. Journeyed not — Which was a testimony of respect to her both from God and from the people; God so ordering it, partly lest she should be overwhelmed by such a public rebuke from God, and partly lest, she being a prophetess, the gift of prophecy should come into contempt.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in…
the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again--Either not to crush her by a sentence of overwhelming severity or not to expose her, being a prophetess, to popular contempt.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 15. And the people journeyed not — More than…
15. And the people journeyed not — More than two million people — Bertheau calculates three million — are retarded in their journey by the sin of one influential person. Thus the unbelieving spies kept the whole nation out of Canaan nearly thirty-nine years. The sins of the great are national calamities.
Till Miriam was brought in — There is no account of her healing. She was probably healed when Moses prayed. The healed leper was not permitted to enter his tent till seven days after the priest declared him healed. Lev_14:8. Two of the Targums read thus: “Because Miriam, the prophetess, had watched for a little hour on the river bank to know what would be the fate of Moses, for the sake of that merit all Israel, numbering sixty myriads, being eighty legions, and the cloud of glory, the tabernacle, and the well, went not till she was healed.”
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (15) And the people journeyed not . . .…
(15) And the people journeyed not . . . —The law for the purification of the leper, as prescribed in Leviticus 14, had already been delivered.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days.…
Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days. It does not say that Miriam was healed forthwith of her leprosy, but the presumption is to that effect. Not the punishment itself, but the shame of it, was to last according to the answer of God. Her ease, therefore, would not fall under the law of Num_5:2, or of Lev_13:46, but would be analogous to that treated of in Leviticus 14. No doubt size had to submit to all the rites there prescribed, humiliating as they must have been to the prophetess and the sister of the law-giver; and these rites involved exclusion from her tent for a period of seven days. (Lev_14:8) By God"s command exclusion from her tent was made exclusion from the comp.
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