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Sure if you believe in supernatural turning of people into metzorote not leprosy. Do you only look for proof texts for you feminist games?

Try a non-magic understanding of the situation. Miriam had the tumah before the questioning of Moshehs authority. Miriam was looking for a pretext to proclaim that she, even as a metzorah, should be able to stay in the camp. She seemed to have hidden it well until this point. But YHWH was having none of it. Aaron seems to have not known much of anything. Before it even got off the ground the challenge to authority was revealed to only the three and then the metzorah of Miriam revealed. She had had it for awhile. There was no magic poof. The separation in the text may show that she was likely in the process of healing or completely covered with something else. She would need, according to Torah, to remain outside the camp seven days to prove it was gone or to diagnose it as not tzaarat at all.

I suppose a smack upside the face is never warranted to male or female? Perhaps sons were struck and daughters were spat upon. Maybe honor killing has replaced spitting.

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