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12 Oh, do not let her be like one dead, already half decomposed when he comes from his mother’s womb.” 13 So Moses cried out to the Lord, saying, “Heal her please, O God, I plead with You!” 14 But the Lord said to Moses, “If her father had but [a]spit in her face, would she not bear her shame for seven days? Let her be shut up outside the camp for seven days, and afterward she may return.”

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 12:14 I.e. rebuked her publicly.

12 Do not let her be like a stillborn infant coming from its mother’s womb with its flesh half eaten away.”

13 So Moses cried out to the Lord, “Please, God, heal her!(A)

14 The Lord replied to Moses, “If her father had spit in her face,(B) would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Confine her outside the camp(C) for seven days; after that she can be brought back.”

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