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Miriam’s Punishment. 10 Now the cloud withdrew from the tent, and there was Miriam,(A) stricken with a scaly infection, white as snow![a] When Aaron turned toward Miriam and saw her stricken with snow-white scales,

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  1. 12:10 Stricken with a scaly infection, white as snow: see note on Lv 13:1–14:47. The point of the simile lies either in the flakiness or the whiteness of snow.

10 When the cloud lifted from above the tent,(A) Miriam’s skin was leprous[a]—it became as white as snow.(B) Aaron turned toward her and saw that she had a defiling skin disease,(C)

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  1. Numbers 12:10 The Hebrew for leprous was used for various diseases affecting the skin.