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Numbers 12 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Miriam and Aaron Speak Against Moses

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Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had taken as a wife (for he had taken a Cushite woman);

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:2 - and they said, “Has Yahweh indeed spoken only through Moses? Has He not spoken through us as well?” And Yahweh heard it.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:3 - (Now the man Moses was very humble, more than any man who was on the face of the earth.)
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:4 - Suddenly Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron and to Miriam, “You three come out to the tent of meeting.” So the three of them came out.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:5 - Then Yahweh came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the doorway of the tent, and He called [fn]Aaron and Miriam. And then both came forward,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:6 - and He said,

“Hear now My words:

If there is a prophet among you,

I, Yahweh, shall make Myself known to him in a vision.

I shall speak with him in a dream.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:7 -

“Not so, with My servant Moses,

He is faithful in all My household;

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With him I speak mouth to mouth,

Indeed clearly, and not in riddles,

And he beholds the form of Yahweh.

Why then were you not afraid

To speak against My servant, against Moses?”

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So the anger of Yahweh burned against them, and He went away.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:10 - But the cloud withdrew from over the tent, and behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. And Aaron turned toward Miriam, and behold, she was leprous.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:11 - Then Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord, I beg you, do not place this sin on us, in which we have acted foolishly and in which we have sinned.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:12 - “Oh, do not let her be like one dead, whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes from his mother’s womb!”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:13 - And Moses cried out to Yahweh, saying, “O God, heal her, I pray!”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:14 - But Yahweh said to Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not bear her dishonor for seven days? Let her be shut up for seven days outside the camp, and afterward she may be received again.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:15 - So Miriam was shut up outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not set out until Miriam was received again.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:16 -

Afterward, however, the people set out from Hazeroth and camped in the wilderness of Paran.

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Or “Aaron and Miriam!”
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