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Text -- Numbers 12:1-15 (NET)
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Miriam and Aaron Oppose Moses
12:1 Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman he had married (for he had married an Ethiopian woman ).
12:2 They said , “Has the Lord only spoken through Moses ? Has he not also spoken through us?” And the Lord heard it.
12:3 (Now the man Moses was very humble , more so than any man on the face of the earth .)
The Response of the Lord
12:4 The Lord spoke immediately to Moses , Aaron , and Miriam : “The three of you come to the tent of meeting .” So the three of them went .
12:5 And the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tent ; he then called Aaron and Miriam , and they both came forward .
12:6 The Lord said , “Hear now my words : If there is a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known to him in a vision ; I will speak with him in a dream .
12:7 My servant Moses is not like this ; he is faithful in all my house .
12:8 With him I will speak face to face , openly , and not in riddles ; and he will see the form of the Lord . Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses ?”
12:9 The anger of the Lord burned against them, and he departed .
12:10 When the cloud departed from above the tent , Miriam became leprous as snow . Then Aaron looked at Miriam , and she was leprous !
The Intercession of Moses
12:11 So Aaron said to Moses , “O my lord , please do not hold this sin against us, in which we have acted foolishly and have sinned !
12:12 Do not let her be like a baby born dead , whose flesh is half-consumed when it comes out of its mother’s womb !”
12:13 Then Moses cried to the Lord , “Heal her now , O God .”
12:14 The Lord said to Moses , “If her father had only spit in her face , would she not have been disgraced for seven days ? Shut her out from the camp seven days , and afterward she can be brought back in again.”
12:15 So Miriam was shut outside of the camp for seven days , and the people did not journey on until Miriam was brought back in.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Miriam |
Aaron |
Moses |
Leprosy |
GENEALOGY, 8 part 2 |
Murmuring |
WITCH; WITCHCRAFT |
Judgments |
Exodus |
PENTATEUCH, 2B |
Women |
DARK SAYINGS |
Conspiracy |
Forgiveness |
Hazeroth |
Minister |
Treason |
Citizenship |
Envy |
Ambition |
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NET Notes -> Num 12:1; Num 12:1; Num 12:1; Num 12:1; Num 12:1; Num 12:2; Num 12:2; Num 12:2; Num 12:2; Num 12:2; Num 12:3; Num 12:3; Num 12:3; Num 12:6; Num 12:6; Num 12:6; Num 12:7; Num 12:7; Num 12:8; Num 12:8; Num 12:8; Num 12:10; Num 12:10; Num 12:10; Num 12:10; Num 12:11; Num 12:12; Num 12:13; Num 12:14; Num 12:15
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NET Notes: Num 12:2 The statement is striking. Obviously the Lord knows all things. But the statement of the obvious here is meant to indicate that the Lord was about to ...
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NET Notes: Num 12:3 Humility is a quality missing today in many leaders. Far too many are self-promoting, or competitive, or even pompous. The statement in this passage w...
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NET Notes: Num 12:6 The Hebrew syntax is difficult here. “The Lord” is separated from the verb by two intervening prepositional phrases. Some scholars conclud...
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NET Notes: Num 12:7 The word “faithful” is נֶאֱמָן (ne’eman), the Niphal participle of the verb אָ...
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NET Notes: Num 12:12 The words “its mother” and “its flesh” are among the so-called tiqqune sopherim, or “emendations of the scribes.” ...
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NET Notes: Num 12:13 Some scholars emend אֵל (’el, “God”) to עַל(’al, “no”). The effect of this cha...
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NET Notes: Num 12:14 The form is intensified by the infinitive absolute, but here the infinitive strengthens not simply the verbal idea but the conditional cause construct...
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