Tharbis

• General Notes
  • The Bible says that Aaron and Miriam spoke against Moses "because of   th e Ethiopian woman he had married." - or if you are old-fashioned   like me , because of his 'Cushite' wife (as Cush is how the word was  translated  before the translatorsbegan using "Eth Marriage and the  constitution of the family According to the laws of Moses, aman was  forbidden to remarry a     divorce d wife, if she had married again  and become a widow, or had    been divorce d from her second husband.  Israelites were notforbidden  to intn Tharbis was the daughter of the  king of the Ethiopians: she happened   to see Moses as he led the  army near the walls, and fought with   great  cour age; and admiring  the subtility of his undertakings, and   believing him t o be the  author of theEgyptians' succc