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12 Please do not let her be like a stillborn infant that comes out of its mother’s womb[a] with its flesh half-eaten away.”

13 Moses cried out to the Lord, “God, please heal her, please!”

14 The Lord said to Moses, “If her father had merely spit in her face, would she not be disgraced for seven days? Have her confined outside of the camp for seven days, and after that she can be brought back in.”

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 12:12 The alternate Hebrew reading our mother was likely the original reading, which was altered by a scribe to avoid offense to Moses’ mother.