Saturday, October 3, 2009

Unfair punishment again

Numbers 12:9 says, “And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and he departed.

12:10 And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.

12:11 And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned.” Miriam’s only crime was that she spoke out against Moses marrying an Ethiopian woman.  Numbers 12:1 “And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.” Moses’s original wife was Zipporah, Exodus 2:21 “And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter” Miriam was Aaron’s sister the Prophetess.  The big question is why didn’t Aaron get punished also.  He should have become leprous too.

They are also not following the Law of Leprosy found in Leviticus 13.

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