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"Miriam was quarantined outside the camp seven days; people did not travel until Miriam gathered". (12, 15)
 

When Miriam was afflicted with leprosy, she had to stay in quarantine outside the camp of Israel for seven days. All the children of Israel did not continue their journey, but stopped at the parking and waiting until the end the days of quarantine of Miriam. If the Israelites were waiting for Miriam, she was not left alone in the desert, but joined them. What would happen then? Was more time passes until she was cured. Miriam's Medical demanded seven days of the closure outside the camp. This is possible only when parking, and then have Divine Presence Camp, a levitical camp & camp of Israel. So there is a reality of "outside the camp." But when you travel a reality does not exist. If the Israelites were set off, not waiting for Miriam, her medicine was delayed, since the days of travel are not included in the account seven days of her medical need.

Rashi explains this delay of the children of Israel had some respect for G-d to Miriam as a reward for delayed one hour and watched Moses thrown on the Nile River, as it is written: "Stand up his sister from a distance, to know what to do with him." Miriam stood from afar, and she had no option to save Moses, she was about to see what was happening to him. Indeed, Miriam saw how Pharaoh's daughter came to wash down in the Nile River and she fined Moses in the box. Pharaoh's daughter tried to calm Moses with Egyptian nursing, but Moses refused to nurse from them, and not relaxed. So Miriam went to her and offered to bring a wet nurse from the Hebraism. Pharaoh's daughter agreed, and Miriam called to mother of child, she nursed him and comforted him.

If Miriam was not delayed and watches over the remote Moses, what would happen then? Pharaoh's daughter was eventually reaches a Hebraism nurse. But it would have taken more time; the grief of Moses was longer. Miriam operation reduced the sorrow of Moses!

Miriam's wages, the delayed and watched away and so quick Moses relaxed, was "Measure for Measure". G-d respect her, people stopped and did not travel till Miriam be healed, to speed up her medicine.

 
 



     
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