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The Complaint of Miriam and Aaron

Numbers 12:12

In 11 translations

BSB
Please do not let her be like a stillborn infant whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”
KJV
Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother’s womb.
WEB
Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”
ASV
Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother’s womb.
LSV
please do not let her be as [one] dead, when in his coming out from the womb of his mother—the half of his flesh is consumed.”
YLT
let her not, I pray thee, be as [one] dead, when in his coming out from the womb of his mother — the half of his flesh is consumed.'
DBY
Let her not be as one stillborn, half of whose flesh is consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb.
DRC
Let her not be as one dead, and as an abortive that is cast forth from the mother’s womb. Lo, now one half of her flesh is consumed with the leprosy.
GNV
Let her not, I pray thee, be as one dead, of whome the flesh is halfe consumed, when he commeth out of his mothers wombe.
JPS
Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.'
LXXE
Let her not be as it were like death, as an abortion coming out of his mother's womb, when the disease devours the half of the flesh.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
אַל־נָ֥א תְהִ֖י כַּמֵּ֑ת אֲשֶׁ֤ר בְּצֵאתוֹ֙ מֵרֶ֣חֶם אִמּ֔וֹ וַיֵּאָכֵ֖ל חֲצִ֥י בְשָׂרֽוֹ׃
LXX-Br
Μὴ γένηται ὡσεὶ ἶσον θανάτῳ, ὡσεὶ ἔκτρωμα ἐκπορευόμενον ἐκ μήτρας μητρὸς, καὶ κατεσθίει τὸ ἥμισυ τῶν σαρκῶν αὐτῆς.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 88:4–5I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength. I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care.
  • Ephesians 2:1–5And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.…
  • 1 Corinthians 15:8And last of all He appeared to me also, as to one of untimely birth.
  • Job 3:16Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?
  • Psalms 58:8Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.
  • 1 Timothy 5:6But she who lives for pleasure is dead even while she is still alive.
  • Colossians 2:13When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses,

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