Moses' sister living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness

Miriam

Exodus 2:4–8; 15:20–21; Numbers 20:1

Moses and Aaron’s sister, who as a girl stood at a distance to watch over her baby brother in the basket on the river and then offered to find a nurse for him (Exodus 2:4–8). After the crossing of the Red Sea, “Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron” took a tambourine, and the women followed her in song and dance (Exodus 15:20–21). She and Aaron later spoke against Moses over the Cushite woman he had married, and she was struck with leprosy, until Moses prayed and she was healed after seven days (Numbers 12:1–15). She died at Kadesh in the first month of the fortieth year and was buried there (Numbers 20:1). Through the prophet Micah God recalls that he sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam to lead his people (Micah 6:4).

Older sister of Aaron and Moses; she watched over baby Moses and led Israel's women in song after the Red Sea crossing. Scripture doesn't give her age. The 130 years here are Ussher's figure; he dates her death to the first month of the 40th year after the Exodus (1452 BC).

Family

Father

Amram

Mother

Jochebed

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