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    Numbers 12

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    A father's spit becomes the measure of Miriam's disgrace: seven days outside the camp, while the people wait for her before moving on.

    A quarrel heard in heavenvv. 1–3

    Miriam and Aaron criticize Moses over the Cushite woman he married, and then press the larger question: whether the LORD speaks only through Moses. The LORD hears them. The text pauses over Moses himself, calling him extraordinarily humble in a sentence of almost comic grandeur.

    The cloud at the Tentvv. 4–9

    The LORD summons Moses, Aaron, and Miriam to the Tent of Meeting. A pillar of cloud stands at the entrance, and Aaron and Miriam are called forward for a distinction drawn with remarkable plainness: prophets receive visions and dreams, but Moses is addressed face to face, clearly and not in riddles. The warning ends with the LORD's anger burning against them, followed by His departure.

    Seven days outsidevv. 10–16

    When the cloud lifts, Miriam is suddenly leprous, white as snow. Aaron turns to Moses with an appeal so graphic that the plea seems to stumble over its own image: a stillborn infant, flesh half consumed. Moses cries out for her healing, but the LORD answers with the startlingly ordinary comparison of a father spitting in his daughter's face. Miriam is confined outside the camp for seven days; the people do not move until she returns, and only then do they leave Hazeroth and camp in the Wilderness of Paran.

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    1. Num 12:1Then Miriam and Aaron criticized Moses because of the Cushite woman he had married, for he had taken a Cushite wife.

    2. Num 12:2“Does the LORD speak only through Moses?” they said. “Does He not also speak through us?” And the LORD heard this.

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

    4. Num 12:4And suddenly the LORD said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, “You three, come out to the Tent of Meeting.” So the three went out,

    5. Num 12:5and the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud, stood at the entrance to the Tent, and summoned Aaron and Miriam. When both of them had stepped forward,

    6. Num 12:6He said, “Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, will reveal Myself to him in a vision; I will speak to him in a dream.

    7. Num 12:7But this is not so with My servant Moses; he is faithful in all My house.

    8. Num 12:8I speak with him face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the LORD. Why then were you unafraid to speak against My servant Moses?”

    9. Num 12:9So the anger of the LORD burned against them, and He departed.

    10. Num 12:10As the cloud lifted from above the Tent, suddenly Miriam became leprous, white as snow. Aaron turned toward her, saw that she was leprous,

    11. Num 12:11and said to Moses, “My lord, please do not hold against us this sin we have so foolishly committed.

    12. Num 12:12Please do not let her be like a stillborn infant whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”

    13. Num 12:13So Moses cried out to the LORD, “O God, please heal her!”

    14. Num 12:14But the LORD answered Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Let her be confined outside the camp for seven days; after that she may be brought back in.”

    15. Num 12:15So Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on until she was brought in again.

    16. Num 12:16After that, the people set out from Hazeroth and camped in the Wilderness of Paran.

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    • 61 Kings 3:5One night at Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream, and God said, “Ask, and I will give it to you!”
    • 8Deuteronomy 34:10Since that time, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face—
    • 6Genesis 31:10–11When the flocks were breeding, I saw in a dream that the streaked, spotted, and speckled males were mating with the females.
    • 6Genesis 46:2And that night God spoke to Israel in a vision: “Jacob, Jacob!” He said. “Here I am,” replied Jacob.
    • 6Acts 22:17–18Later, when I had returned to Jerusalem and was praying at the temple, I fell into a trance
    • 81 Corinthians 13:12Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
    • 3Matthew 11:29Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
    • 6Luke 1:22When he came out and was unable to speak to them, they realized he had seen a vision in the temple. He kept making signs to them but remained unable to speak.
    • 7Hebrews 3:2–6He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.
    • 10Deuteronomy 24:9Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam on the journey after you came out of Egypt.
    • 6Daniel 10:8So I was left alone, gazing at this great vision. No strength remained in me; my face grew deathly pale, and I was powerless.
    • 6Luke 1:11Just then an angel of the Lord appeared to Zechariah, standing at the right side of the altar of incense.
    • 102 Kings 5:27Therefore, the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and your descendants forever!” And as Gehazi left his presence, he was leprous—as white as snow.
    • 6Ezekiel 1:1In the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was among the exiles by the River Kebar, the heavens opened and I saw visions of God.
    • 8Exodus 33:23Then I will take My hand away, and you will see My back; but My face must not be seen.”
    • 8Luke 10:16Whoever listens to you listens to Me; whoever rejects you rejects Me; and whoever rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me.”

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