Comentário sobre Êxodo 4:6

מצרעת כשלג LEPROUS AS SNOW — It is the nature of leprosy to be white, and thus we read in reference to a leper, (Leviticus 13:4) “If the bright spot be white [in the skin of his flesh]”. By this sign, too, he indicated that he had made a slanderous statement when he said, (v. 1) “But, behold, they will not believe me”. Therefore He smote him with leprosy (Exodus Rabbah 3:13) even as Miriam was so smitten for the slander she had spoken (cf. Shabbat 97a).

V.6. Bei der Aufforderung, den Stab zur Erde zu werfen, steht nicht das bittende נא, wohl aber hier, wo die eigene Hand aussätzig werden soll, eine Anforderung, die eine unangenehme Zumutung enthält. In solchen feinen Nuancen verrät sich die Authentizität einer Schrift.