Numbers 12:12
Good News Translation
Don't let her become like something born dead with half its flesh eaten away."

New Revised Standard Version
Do not let her be like one stillborn, whose flesh is half consumed when it comes out of its mother’s womb.”

Contemporary English Version
Don't let Miriam's flesh rot away like a child born dead!"

New American Bible
Do not let her be like the stillborn baby that comes forth from its mother’s womb with its flesh half consumed.”

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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

as one dead

Psalm 88:4,5 I am counted among them that go down to the pit: I am become as a man without help, . . .

Ephesians 2:1-5 And you, when you were dead in your offences and sins, . . .

Colossians 2:13 And you, when you were dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he hath quickened together with him, forgiving you all offences:

1 Timothy 5:6 For she that liveth in pleasures is dead while she is living.

of whom

Job 3:16 Or as a hidden untimely birth, I should not be; or as they that, being conceived, have not seen the light.

Psalm 58:8 Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen on them, and they shall not see the sun.

1 Corinthians 15:8 And last of all, he was seen also by me, as by one born out of due tine.

Context
The Murmuring of Miriam and Aaron
11He said to Moses: I beseech thee, my lord, lay not upon us this sin, which we have foolishly committed: 12Let 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.13And Moses cried to the Lord, saying O God, I beseech thee heal her.…
Cross References
Numbers 12:11
He said to Moses: I beseech thee, my lord, lay not upon us this sin, which we have foolishly committed:

Numbers 12:13
And Moses cried to the Lord, saying O God, I beseech thee heal her.

Numbers 12:11
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