Exodus 2:4

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Exodus 2:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible

2 and she conceived and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him for three months.

3 But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.

4 And his sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.

5 Soon the daughter of Pharaoh went down to bathe in the Nile, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. And when she saw the basket among the reeds, she sent her maidservant to retrieve it.

6 When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the little boy was crying. So she had compassion on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrew children.”

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Exodus 15:20

Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.

Numbers 12:1

Then Miriam and Aaron criticized Moses because of the Cushite woman he had married, for he had taken a Cushite wife.

Numbers 12:2

“Does the LORD speak only through Moses?” they said. “Does He not also speak through us?” And the LORD heard this.

Numbers 12:3

Now Moses was a very humble man, more so than any man on the face of the earth.

Numbers 12:4

And suddenly the LORD said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, “You three, come out to the Tent of Meeting.” So the three went out,

Numbers 12:5

and the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud, stood at the entrance to the Tent, and summoned Aaron and Miriam. When both of them had stepped forward,

Numbers 12:6

He said, “Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, will reveal Myself to him in a vision; I will speak to him in a dream.

Numbers 12:7

But this is not so with My servant Moses; he is faithful in all My house.

Numbers 12:8

I speak with him face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the LORD. Why then were you unafraid to speak against My servant Moses?”

Numbers 12:9

So the anger of the LORD burned against them, and He departed.

Numbers 12:10

As the cloud lifted from above the Tent, suddenly Miriam became leprous, white as snow. Aaron turned toward her, saw that she was leprous,

Numbers 12:11

and said to Moses, “My lord, please do not hold against us this sin we have so foolishly committed.

Numbers 12:12

Please do not let her be like a stillborn infant whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”

Numbers 12:13

So Moses cried out to the LORD, “O God, please heal her!”

Numbers 12:14

But the LORD answered Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Let her be confined outside the camp for seven days; after that she may be brought back in.”

Numbers 12:15

So Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on until she was brought in again.

Numbers 20:1

In the first month, the whole congregation of Israel entered the Wilderness of Zin and stayed in Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.

Numbers 26:59

and Amram’s wife was named Jochebed. She was also a daughter of Levi, born to Levi in Egypt. To Amram she bore Aaron, Moses, and their sister Miriam.

Micah 6:4

For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery. I sent Moses before you, as well as Aaron and Miriam.