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Numbers 12 General Notes
Structure and formatting
Some translations set poetry farther to the right than the rest of the text to show that it is poetry. The ULB does this with the poetry in 12:6-8.
Important figures of speech in this chapter
Idiom
God used the idiom "mouth to mouth" meaning "speaking directly with both people present." This indicated that Moses was more than just a prophet and greater than other prophets. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-idiom and rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/prophet)