Numbers 12:12
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New International Version (©2011)
Do not let her be like a stillborn infant coming from its mother's womb with its flesh half eaten away."

New Living Translation (©2007)
Don't let her be like a stillborn baby, already decayed at birth."

English Standard Version (©2001)
Let her not be as one dead, whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Oh, do not let her be like one dead, whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes from his mother's womb!"

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Please don't let her be like a dead baby whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes out of his mother's womb."

International Standard Version (©2012)
Please don't let her be like one of the living dead, who is born with a congenital skin disease."

NET Bible (©2006)
Do not let her be like a baby born dead, whose flesh is half-consumed when it comes out of its mother's womb!"

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Don't let her be like a stillborn baby that's not completely developed."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Let her not be as one dead, whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb.

American King James Version
Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb.

American Standard Version
Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let her not be as one dead, and as an abortive that is cast forth from the mother's womb. Lo, now one half of her flesh is consumed with the leprosy.

Darby Bible Translation
Let her not be as one stillborn, half of whose flesh is consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb.

English Revised Version
Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.

Webster's Bible Translation
Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed at the time of his birth.

World English Bible
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."

Young's Literal Translation
let her not, I pray thee, be as one dead, when in his coming out from the womb of his mother -- the half of his flesh is consumed.'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

12:10-16 The cloud departed, and Miriam became leprous. When God goes, evil comes: expect no good when God departs. Her foul tongue, as Bishop Hall says, was justly punished with a foul face. Aaron, as priest, was judge of the leprosy. He could not pronounce her leprous without trembling, knowing himself to be equally guilty. But if she was thus punished for speaking against Moses, what will become of those who sin against Christ? Aaron, who joined his sister in speaking against Moses, is forced for himself and his sister, to beseech him, and to speak highly of him whom he had so lately blamed. Those who trample upon the saints and servants of God, will one day be glad to make court to them. It is well when rebukes produce confession of sin and repentance. Such offenders, though corrected and disgraced, shall be pardoned. Moses made it appear, that he forgave the injury done him. To this pattern of Moses, and that of our Saviour, who said, Father, forgive them, we must conform. A reason is given for Miriam's being put out of the camp for seven days; because thus she ought to accept the punishment of her sin. When under the tokens of God's displeasure for sin, it becomes us to take shame to ourselves. This hindered the people's progress in their march forward towards Canaan. Many things oppose us, but nothing so hinders us in the way to heaven, as sin.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 12. - As one dead. Rather, "as the dead thing," i.e. the still-born child, in which death and decay have anticipated life. Such was the frightful effect of leprosy in its last stages.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Let her not be as one dead,.... As she was in a ceremonial sense, being to be shut up and excluded from the society of people, and as defiling by touching as a dead carcase; and, in a natural sense, her flesh, by the disease upon her, was become as dead flesh, putrid and rotten, and unless miraculously cured it would issue in her death:

of whom the flesh is half consumed, when he cometh out of his mother's womb; like an abortive, or one stillborn, that has been dead some time in its mother's womb; and therefore when brought forth its flesh is almost wasted away, or at least half consumed: and in such a plight and condition was Miriam already, or quickly would be, through the force of her disease.

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The Murmuring of Miriam and Aaron
…11And Aaron said to Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech you, lay not the sin on us, wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned. 12Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb. 13And Moses cried to the LORD, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech you. …

Numbers 12:11 and he said to Moses, "Please, my lord, I ask you not to hold against us the sin we have so foolishly committed.
Numbers 12:13 So Moses cried out to the LORD, "Please, God, heal her!"