Old Testament · Law

Numbers chapter 12

Miriam and Aaron started Moses because of the he had married—he had indeed married a Cushite woman.They said, “Is Moses really the only one speaks through? Doesn’t he speak through us too?” And Yahweh .Now Moses was more than anyone else on the face of the earth. Yahweh said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, “All three of you—come out to the .” So the three of them went out.Yahweh came down in a and stood at the entrance of the tent. He called out, “Aaron! Miriam!” and both of them stepped forward.He said, “Listen carefully to what I’m saying: When there’s a among you, I, Yahweh, make myself known to them through . I speak to them in dreams.But that’s not how it is with my Moses. He is .I speak with him —openly and plainly, not in . He even sees the . So why weren’t you afraid to criticize my servant Moses?”Yahweh’s against them, and he left.When the cloud lifted from above the tent, there was Miriam—her skin covered in a . Aaron turned toward her and saw the disease covering her skin.Aaron said to Moses, “Please, ! Don’t hold this against us. We acted foolishly and we’ve done wrong.Don’t let her be like a , already half-decomposed when it comes out of its mother’s body.”Moses to Yahweh, “God, please—!”Yahweh said to Moses, “If her own father had , wouldn’t she carry that for seven days? Confine her outside the camp for seven days, and after that she can be brought back in.”So Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days, and until she was brought back.After that, the people set out from and made camp in the .