Amie
03-12-2006, 07:28 PM
Moses's sister stood at a distance, hiding, to see what would become of her baby brother in the reeds. After seeing to his safety, she arranged for their Mother to nurse and raise Moses until he was weaned (Ex 2:7-9).
She would be the first woman of the bible to be called prophetess (Ex 15:20), and lead the women of Israel in singing victoriously of the Exodus.
She would speak out against Moses's marriage to a Cushite woman (Numbers 12:1), questioning whether or not God spoke only to Moses. "Has he not also spoken by us?" She said. Hearing her, God explained "If your prophet is of Jehovah, I will make Myself seen by him in an appearance; I will speak to him in a dream. It is not so with My servant Moses! He is faithful in all My house. I speak to him mouth to mouth, and by an appearance, and not in riddles; and he looks upon the form of Jehovah. So why have you not been afraid to speak against My servant, against Moses?"
Aaron asked Moses that the sin no be layed upon them, their sin was out of foolishness. Moses asked God to heal her. God sent her out seven days, and then she was healed. Like Moses, she didn't make it into the promised land (Num. 20:1).
It is interesting to note that she and Aaron were guilty of the sin, though only she was striken with leprosy.
Any thoughts on the story itself or why that might be? (My thoughts are that the scribes may have been biased. Aaron assigns the sin to them. I have no thoughts about the story itself yet :))
Thanks,
Amie
She would be the first woman of the bible to be called prophetess (Ex 15:20), and lead the women of Israel in singing victoriously of the Exodus.
She would speak out against Moses's marriage to a Cushite woman (Numbers 12:1), questioning whether or not God spoke only to Moses. "Has he not also spoken by us?" She said. Hearing her, God explained "If your prophet is of Jehovah, I will make Myself seen by him in an appearance; I will speak to him in a dream. It is not so with My servant Moses! He is faithful in all My house. I speak to him mouth to mouth, and by an appearance, and not in riddles; and he looks upon the form of Jehovah. So why have you not been afraid to speak against My servant, against Moses?"
Aaron asked Moses that the sin no be layed upon them, their sin was out of foolishness. Moses asked God to heal her. God sent her out seven days, and then she was healed. Like Moses, she didn't make it into the promised land (Num. 20:1).
It is interesting to note that she and Aaron were guilty of the sin, though only she was striken with leprosy.
Any thoughts on the story itself or why that might be? (My thoughts are that the scribes may have been biased. Aaron assigns the sin to them. I have no thoughts about the story itself yet :))
Thanks,
Amie