Numbers 12

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 While they were in Hazeroth, Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses on the pretext of the marriage he had contracted with a Cushite woman.	1 And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.
2 They complained, "Is it through Moses alone that the LORD speaks? Does he not speak through us also?" And the LORD heard this.	2 And they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it.
3 Now, Moses himself was by far the meekest man on the face of the earth.	3 (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.)
4 So at once the LORD said to Moses and Aaron and Miriam, "Come out, you three, to the meeting tent." And the three of them went.	4 And the LORD spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the congregation. And they three came out.
5 Then the LORD came down in the column of cloud, and standing at the entrance of the tent, called Aaron and Miriam. When both came forward,	5 And the LORD came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam: and they both came forth.
6 he said, "Now listen to the words of the LORD: Should there be a prophet among you, in visions will I reveal myself to him, in dreams will I speak to him;	6 And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.
7 Not so with my servant Moses! Throughout my house he bears my trust:	7 My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house.
8 face to face I speak to him, plainly and not in riddles. The presence of the LORD he beholds. Why, then, did you not fear to speak against my servant Moses?"	8 With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
9 So angry was the LORD against them that when he departed,	9 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and he departed.
10 and the cloud withdrew from the tent, there was Miriam, a snow-white leper! When Aaron turned and saw her a leper,	10 And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.
11 "Ah, my lord!" he said to Moses, "please do not charge us with the sin that we have foolishly committed!	11 And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned.
12 Let her not thus be like the stillborn babe that comes forth from its mother's womb with its flesh half consumed."	12 Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.
13 Then Moses cried to the LORD, "Please, not this! Pray, heal her!"	13 And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee.
14 But the LORD answered Moses, "Suppose her father had spit in her face, would she not hide in shame for seven days? Let her be confined outside the camp for seven days; only then may she be brought back."	14 And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again.
15 So Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not start out again until she was brought back.	15 And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again.
16 After that the people set out from Hazeroth and encamped in the desert of Paran.	16 And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.