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Miriam
Moses' older sister — a prophetess who led Israel's women in song after the Red Sea and walked with her brothers through the wilderness years.
As a child, Miriam watched over baby Moses in the basket and brought their mother to nurse him in Pharaoh's house. Years later she led Israel's women in tambourine and dance after God parted the Red Sea — the Bible's first named woman prophet.
She had a public failure too, opposing Moses and being struck briefly with leprosy. Yet Micah remembers her with Moses and Aaron as leaders the LORD sent. Her story holds the long, mixed faithfulness of those who follow God across decades.
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Exodus 15:20 “Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.” Micah 6:4 “For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery. I sent Moses before you, as well as Aaron and Miriam.”
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Original BibleDawn entry. Drafted with AI assistance and reviewed for accuracy.