The cloud departed from over the Tent; and behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. Aaron looked at Miriam, and behold, she was leprous. Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord, please don’t count this sin against us, in which we have done foolishly, and in which we have sinned. Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.” Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “Heal her, God, I beg you!” Yahweh […]
⛓ Read Numbers 12 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Echo3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Miriam's leprosy, exclusion 'outside the camp' for seven days, and restoration by intercession reinforce the segregation-and-cleansing pattern shaping the leper episode. Moderate Coherence; the motif overlaps with the Leviticus laws, so it adds recurrence rather than independent Volume.
Medium confidenceMiriam's leprosy and Moses' intercession, with the priestly/Mosaic handling of her exclusion and restoration, sits in the background of leprosy as a divinely-managed impurity. Volume is low and the contact thematic rather than verbal, so this is a contested supporting echo to the Levitical leprosy frame.
Low confidenceMiriam struck leprous and shut outside the camp until cleansed; faint thematic resonance of leprosy as the boundary between clean and unclean community. Disputed as a deliberate link.
Low confidence