19:14-22
If someone dies in a tent, then everyone who is in the tent is deemed to be unclean for seven days. For someone who dies in the field, a person is unclean if they touch the body. We then get the purification ritual that had to be carried out. If a person who had become unclean through contact with a dead body did not go through the purification ritual, then they were to be cut off.
20:1
Kadesh was near the region where the spies had gone in. We are then told that Miriam died. Miriam was a leader, along with Aaron. She had saved Moses’ life (Ex 2:4-8), she was also a prophet and worship leader (Ex 15:20,21). She did also rebel along with Aaron (Num 12:1). In short, she was an important woman in Israel.
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