And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses
Miriam is first mentioned, because she was first in the
transgression, and so was only punished; Aaron was drawn into the
sin by her, and he acknowledged his fault, and was forgiven: it
must be a great trial to Moses, not only to be spoken against by
the people, as he often was, but by his near relations, and these
gracious persons, and concerned with him in leading and guiding
the people through the wilderness, ( Micah 6:4 ) ;
because of the Ethiopian woman, whom he had married, for he
had
married an Ethiopian woman;
not a queen of Ethiopia, as the Targum of Jonathan; nor Tharbis,
a daughter of a king of Ethiopia, whom Josephus
F8 Antiqu. l. 2. c. 10. sect. 2.
F9 Dibre Hayamim, fol. 7. 2. Shalshalet
Hakabala, fol. 5. 2. so some in Aben Ezra in loc.