Elder sister of Moses and Aaron. As a young girl she watched over baby Moses in the basket on the Nile. After the crossing of the Red Sea she led the women in singing and dancing with tambourines. She is called a prophetess. She was struck with skin disease after criticizing Moses' marriage, but was healed after Moses prayed for her.
And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.Exodus 2:4, KJV
Exodus 15:20
And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.Exodus 15:20, KJV
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.Numbers 12:1, KJV
Numbers 20:1
Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.Numbers 20:1, KJV
Micah 6:4
For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.Micah 6:4, KJV
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