Numbers 12

12:11 Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against2 Moses because of the Cushite3 woman he had married4 (for he had married an Ethiopian woman). 12:2 They5 said, “Has the Lord only6 spoken by Moses? Has he not also spoken by us?”7 And the Lord heard it.8

12:3 Now the man Moses was very humble,9 more so than any man on the face of the earth.

The Response of the Lord

12:4 The Lord spoke immediately to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam: “The three of you come out to the tent of meeting.” So the three of them came out. 12:5 And the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tent; he then called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forward.

12:6 The Lord10 said, “Hear now my words: If there is a prophet among you,11 I the Lord12 will make myself known to him in a vision; I will speak with him in a dream. 12:7 My servant13 Moses is not so; he is faithful14 in all my house. 12:8 With him I will speak face to face,15 openly,16 and not in riddles; and he will see the form17 of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?” 12:9 The anger of the Lord burned against them, and he departed. 12:10 When18 the cloud departed from over the tent, Miriam became19 leprous20 as snow. Then Aaron looked at21 Miriam, and she was leprous!

The Intercession of Moses

12:11 So Aaron said to Moses, “O my lord,22 please do not lay this sin upon us, in which we have acted foolishly and have sinned. 12:12 Do not let her be like a dead person, whose flesh is half-consumed when it comes out of its23 mother’s womb.”

12:13 Then Moses cried to the Lord, “Heal her now, O God.”24 12:14 The Lord said to Moses, “If her father had even spit25 in her face, would she not have been disgraced for seven days? Let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and afterward let her be received back in again.

12:15 So Miriam was shut outside of the camp for seven days, and the people did not journey on until Miriam was brought back in.26 12:16 Then after that the people moved from Hazeroth and camped in the wilderness of Paran.

Spies Sent Out

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