Category:Miriam

Miriam is the sister of Moses. She stayed by the basket (also known as the ark of bulrushes). You can read more about it in Exodus 2:4-10. Miriam is the sister of Moses and Aaron. In the Exodus 2:4-15, Miriam is the one who, after her mother made a basket from bulrushes and pitch to hide baby Moses, watched from afar to see what would become of her 3 month-old baby brother. He was hidden because Pharoah had commanded all his people: Whatever shall be born (to Hebrew women) of the male gender, you shall cast into the river. Exodus 1:22

2:2. ((Moses' mother bore a son: and seeing him a goodly child, hid him three months.

2:3. And when she could hide him no longer, she took a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and pitch: and put the little babe therein, and laid him in the sedges by the river's edge,

2:4. His sister standing afar off, and taking notice what would be done.

2:5. And behold the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself in the river: and her maids walked by the river's edge. And when she saw the basket in the sedges she sent one of her maids for it: and when it was brought,

2:6. She opened it, and seeing within it an infant crying, having compassion on it, she said: This is one of the babes of the Hebrews.

2:7. And the child's sister said to her: Shall I go, and call to you a Hebrew woman, to nurse the babe?

2:8. She answered, "Go." The maid went and called her mother.

2:9. And Pharaoh's daughter said to her: Take this child, and nurse him for me: I will give you your wages. The woman took and nursed the child: and when he was grown up, she delivered him to Pharaoh's daughter.

2:10. And she adopted him for a son, and called him Moses, saying: "Because I took him out of the water." In the Book of Numbers 12:1-15, she and Aaron speak against Moses and Miriam is struck with leprosy that leaves her 'white as snow'. Aaron pleads to Moses saying they were foolish and could he beg God to restore her to health, which God does. But she must remain outside the camp for seven days as a punishment.



-

---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Miriam - Their rebellion. (1.) The sister of Moses and Aaron (Exodus 2:4; 1 Chr, 1 Chronicles 6:3). Her name is prominent in the history of the Exodus. She is called "the prophetess" (Exodus 15:20). She took the lead in the song of triumph after the passage of the Red Sea. She died at Kadesh during the second encampment at that place, toward the close of the wanderings in the wilderness, and was buried there (Numbers 20:1). (See AARON; MOSES.) (2.) 1 Chronicles 4:17, one of the descendants of Judah.