Numbers 12:1-12 ▼

1 And Miriam speaks—Aaron also—against Moses concerning the circumstance of the Cushite woman whom he had taken, for he had taken a Cushite woman;

2 and they say, “Has YHWH only spoken by Moses? Has he not also spoken by us?” And YHWH hears.

3 And the man Moses [is] very humble, more than any of the men who [are] on the face of the ground.

4 And YHWH suddenly says to Moses, and to Aaron, and to Miriam, “Come out, you three, to the Tent of Meeting”; and those three come out.

5 And YHWH comes down in the pillar of the cloud, and stands at the opening of the tent, and calls Aaron and Miriam, and both of them come out.

6 And He says, “Now hear My words: If your prophet is of YHWH, || I make Myself known to him in a vision; I speak with him in a dream.

7 Not so My servant Moses; He [is] steadfast in all My house.

8 I speak with him mouth to mouth, || Even [by] an appearance, and not in riddles; And he beholds the form of YHWH attentively. Now why have you not been afraid || To speak against My servant—against Moses?”

9 And the anger of YHWH burns against them, and He goes on,

10 and the cloud has turned aside from off the tent, and behold, Miriam [is] leprous as snow; and Aaron turns to Miriam, and behold, leprous!

11 And Aaron says to Moses, “O my lord, please do not lay [this] sin on us [in] which we have been foolish, and [in] which we have sinned;

12 please do not let her be as [one] dead, when in his coming out from the womb of his mother—the half of his flesh is consumed.”