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Numbers 12

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1Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married; for he had married an Ethiopian woman. ✦ 2So they said, “Has the Lord indeed spoken only through Moses? Has He not spoken through us also?” And the Lord heard it. ✦ 3(Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all men who were on the face of the earth.) ✦ 4Suddenly the Lord said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, “Come out, you three, to the tabernacle of meeting!” So the three came out. ✦ 5Then the Lord came down in the pillar of cloud and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam. And they both went forward. ✦ 6Then He said, “Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I, the Lord, make Myself known to him in a vision; I speak to him in a dream. ✦ 7Not so with My servant Moses; He is faithful in all My house. ✦ 8I speak with him face to face, Even plainly, and not in dark sayings; And he sees the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid To speak against My servant Moses?” ✦ 9So the anger of the Lord was aroused against them, and He departed. ✦ 10And when the cloud departed from above the tabernacle, suddenly Miriam became leprous, as white as snow. Then Aaron turned toward Miriam, and there she was, a leper. ✦ 11So Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord! Please do not lay this sin on us, in which we have done foolishly and in which we have sinned. ✦ 12Please do not let her be as one dead, whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb!” ✦ 13So Moses cried out to the Lord, saying, “Please heal her, O God, I pray!” ✦ 14Then the Lord said to Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not be shamed seven days? Let her be shut out of the camp seven days, and afterward she may be received again.” ✦ 15So Miriam was shut out of the camp seven days, and the people did not journey till Miriam was brought in again. ✦ 16And afterward the people moved from Hazeroth and camped in the Wilderness of Paran. ✦

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Num 11 ·6Num 16 ·4Exod 33 ·4Exod 34 ·4Matt 23 ·3Matt 11 ·3John 15 ·3Num 14 ·3

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In the wilderness Christ is the water from the rock, the bronze serpent lifted up that the dying might look and live (John 3:14), and the star and scepter that Balaam saw rising out of Jacob.

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