Numbers 12:11 New English Translation

¹¹So Aaron said to Moses, “O my lord,^[a] please do not hold this sin against us, in which we have acted foolishly and have sinned!

Numbers 12:11 tn The expression בִּי אֲדֹנִי (bi ʾadoni, “O my lord”) shows a good deal of respect for Moses by Aaron. The expression is often used in addressing God.

Numbers 12:12 New English Translation

¹²Do not let her be like a baby born dead, whose flesh is half consumed when it comes out of its^[a] mother’s womb!”

Numbers 12:12 tc The words “its mother” and “its flesh” are among the so-called tiqqune sopherim, or “emendations of the scribes.” According to this tradition the text originally had here “our mother” and “our flesh,” but the ancient scribes changed these pronouns from the first person to the third person. Apparently they were concerned that the image of Moses’ mother giving birth to a baby with physical defects of the sort described here was somehow inappropriate, given the stature and importance of Moses.

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