Myriam

According to the Torah then the Old Testament, Myriam (in Hebrew: מרים - miryam ) is the sister of Moïse and Aaron, girl of Amram and Yokébed.

An alternative Mariam gave the Greek Maria , from where French Marie. The etymology is discussed, but this name could come well from the old Egyptian mrit (merit): liked; or of mar-yam in Hebrew: drip of water.

Certain sources identified in Myriam the character of Marie Jewish the, one of the founders of alchemy.

Biblical account

At the beginning of the history of Brace (Exodus, 2,1-10), it is Myriam which follows the cradle by far in which Moïse was deposited on the the Nile. When the woman of Pharaon collects Moïse, Myriam proposes a nurse to him, her mother (thus, the mother of Moïse, Yokébed, but the woman of Pharaon is unaware of the identity of this nurse.

After the crossing of the Red Sea dry, it led the Jewish women to the praise of God:

Ex15. 20 the Miryam prophetess, sister of Aaron, took in hand the tambourine; all the women left to her continuation, dancing and playing of the tambourine. 21. And Miryam them entonna: “Sing the LORD, it made a blow of glare. Horse and rider, at sea it threw them”!

Later, in chapter 12 of the Book of the Numbers, she rebelled, and aspired to the place of Moïse to the head of the people in " complot" with his/her brother Aaron. The Lèpre burst then on its face, and Aaron, by its intercession near God, could save it, it remained nevertheless the time of the purification out of the camp

Nb12.1 : When Miryam and of the same Aaron criticized Moïse because of the Nubian woman as he had married; because he had married a Nubian. 2. They said: “Is this thus in Moïse alone that the LORD spoke? Didn't he speak us with us also”? And the LORD heard it. 3. Brace was a very humble man, more than any man on ground. 4 Suddenly, the LORD called to Moïse, Aaron and Miryam: “Go all the three to the tent of the meeting”. They went there all the three. 5 the LORD went down in a column from cloud and was held with the entry of the tent; he called Aaron and Miryam and both advanced.

Nb12.10 the cloud withdrew top the tent and here is that Miryam had leprosy: it was white like snow. Aaron turned to it and saw that it had leprosy. 11 He says to Moïse: “Oh! my lord, please, do not make fall down on us the sin which we have made, foolish and sinners who we are! 12 Oh! how Miryam does not become as the child still-born child whose flesh is with corroded half when it leaves the center of his mother”! 13 Brace shouted towards the LORD: “O God, condescends to cure it”! 14 And the LORD called to Moïse: “If his/her father had spit to him with the face, wouldn't it be covered with shame during seven days? That it is thus excluded from the camp during seven days; after which it will take again its place”. 15 One thus excludes Miryam from the camp during seven days and the people did not leave before it had taken again its place.

Nb20.1 All the assembly of the children of Israel arrived in the desert of Tsin the first month, and the people stopped in Kadès. It is there that Miryam died and that it was buried.

Model: TOB

See too

Miriam
Marie

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