Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb: Aaron compares Miriam’s skin disease with the disfigured appearance of a stillborn child (so Budd, page 137). Moses of course could not heal Miriam, but Aaron appeals to his brother to plead on her behalf to the LORD. New International Readers Version provides the following helpful model for this verse:

• Don’t let Miriam be like a baby that was born dead. Don’t let her look like a dead baby whose body is half eaten away.”

Quoted with permission from de Regt, Lénart J. and Wendland, Ernst R. A Handbook on Numbers. (UBS Helps for Translators). Miami: UBS, 2016. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .