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12 Please don’t let her be like one of the living dead, who is born with a congenital skin disease.”[a]

13 So Moses prayed to the Lord: “O Lord, please heal her.”

14 But the Lord told Moses, “If her father had merely spit in her face, wouldn’t she be humiliated? She is to be placed in isolation for seven days. After that, she may be brought in.”

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 12:12 Lit. with half his skin consumed

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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