Miriam

I redeemed you from the house of bondage.

And I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

O my people, remember now what Balak, king of Moab, counseled, and what Balaam, the son of Beor, answered him.

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A member of the tribe of Levi and a descendant of Kohath Amram by name had married Jochebed, who belonged to the same tribe.

Their union had already been blessed with two children, Miriam and Aaron, when the murderous edict of Pharaoh was issued.

The birth of their next child brought them the more sorrow and care, that the exceeding fairness of the child not only won their hearts, but seemed to point him out as destined of God for some special purpose.

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Moreover, curiously enough, we learn from the monuments that just at that very time, the royal princesses exercised special influence.

In fact, the two of them were cogents.

So when just at the opportune moment, Miriam, who all along had watched at a little distance, came forward and proposed to call some Hebrew woman to nurse the weeping child, this strange gift bestowed, as it were by the Nile god himself on the princess, she readily consented.

The nurse called was, of course, the child's own mother, who received her babe now as a precious charge entrusted to her care by the daughter of him who would have compassed his destruction.

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There is a similar account to be given for the order of the words in Numbers 12, verses 1 and 10, where Miriam, being the more prominent of the two in opposing Moses, is placed before Aaron.

So Rachel and Leah in inverse order, Genesis 31, verse 14, Gad and Reuben, Numbers 32, verse 6.

She who was blessed among women suffered less from the taint of human infirmity than others, yet she was not entirely exempt from it.

He says in the first month, the whole congregation of Israel entered the wilderness of Zen and stayed in Kadesh.

And there Miriam, that's Moses' sister, died and was buried.

Now there was no water for the congregation, so they gathered against Moses and Aaron.

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The patriarchs and matriarchs each had their own unmistakable character.

Moses, Aaron, and Miriam emerged as different personality types.

Kings, priests, and prophets had different roles to play in Israelite society.

Even among the prophets, Ein Shnei Nevi Mitnabim, No two prophets prophesy in the same style, said the sages.