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10 When the cloud lifted from the Tent and Aaron turned toward Miriam, she was as white as snow; she had a skin disease. 11 Aaron said to Moses, “Please, my master, forgive us for our foolish sin. 12 Don’t let her be like a baby who is born dead. (Sometimes a baby is born with half of its flesh eaten away.)”

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10 And when the cloud departed from above the tabernacle, (A)suddenly Miriam became (B)leprous, as white as snow. Then Aaron turned toward Miriam, and there she was, a leper. 11 So Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord! Please (C)do not lay [a]this sin on us, in which we have done foolishly and in which we have sinned. 12 Please (D)do not let her be as one dead, whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb!”

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  1. Numbers 12:11 the penalty for this

10 When the cloud lifted from above the tent,(A) Miriam’s skin was leprous[a]—it became as white as snow.(B) Aaron turned toward her and saw that she had a defiling skin disease,(C) 11 and he said to Moses, “Please, my lord, I ask you not to hold against us the sin we have so foolishly committed.(D) 12 Do not let her be like a stillborn infant coming from its mother’s womb with its flesh half eaten away.”

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  1. Numbers 12:10 The Hebrew for leprous was used for various diseases affecting the skin.