Numbers Chapter 12 verse 12 Holy Bible
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.
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Let her not be as one dead, whose flesh is half wasted when he comes out from the body of his mother.
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Let her not be as one stillborn, half of whose flesh is consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb.
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Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.
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Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed at the time of his birth.
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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.
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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.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 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.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(12) Let her not be as one dead.--This is another of the places in which the Scribes are said to have altered the text. The original is said to have been as follows:--Let her not be as one dead, who proceeded from the womb of our mother, and half of our flesh be consumed. The leper was "as one dead" in two respects--(1) as being shut out from inter course with his brethren; and (2) as causing ceremonial defilement in the case of those who were brought into contact with him, similar to that which was caused by touching a dead body. "He was," as Archbishop Trench has remarked, "a dreadful parable of death" (On the Miracles, p. 214). In the most severe types of leprosy there was, as the same writer has observed, "a dissolution, little by little, of the whole body, so that one limb after another actually decayed and fell away" (Ibid, p. 213).