Miriam was a prophetess who, along with her brothers, Moses and Aaron, led the Israelites out of Egypt. She led the Jewish women in song and dance. According to midrashic stories, a well of fresh water followed the Israelites in the desert in her merit and disappeared upon her death.
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Miriam Watching the Finding of Moses in the Bulrushes, Simeon Solomon, 1859, From the Robert Isaacson Collection, Gift of James David Draper, 2002, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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