Numbers 12

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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 spoke against Moses, because of his wife, an Ethiopian,
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: “Has the Lord spoken only through Moses? Has he not also spoken similarly to us?” And when the Lord had heard this,
3 Now, Moses himself was by far the meekest man on the face of the earth.	3 (for Moses was a man exceedingly meek, beyond all the men who were living upon 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 immediately he spoke to him, and to Aaron and Miriam, “Go out, you three only, to the tabernacle of the covenant.” And when they had gone 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 the Lord descended in a column of cloud, and he stood at the entrance of the tabernacle, calling to Aaron and Miriam. And when they had advanced,
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 he said to them: “Listen to my words. If there will be among you a prophet of the Lord, I will appear to him in a vision, or I will speak to him through a dream.
7 Not so with my servant Moses! Throughout my house he bears my trust:	7 But it is not so with my servant Moses, who is the most faithful in all my 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 For I speak with him mouth to mouth, and plainly. And not through enigmas and figures does he perceive the Lord. Therefore, why were you not afraid to disparage my servant Moses?”
9 So angry was the LORD against them that when he departed,	9 And being angry against them, he went away.
10 and the cloud withdrew from the tent, there was Miriam, a snow-white leper! When Aaron turned and saw her a leper,	10 Likewise, the cloud which was over the tabernacle withdrew. And behold, Miriam appeared to be white with a leprosy, like snow. And when Aaron had looked upon her, and he had seen the spreading of the leprosy,
11 "Ah, my lord!" he said to Moses, "please do not charge us with the sin that we have foolishly committed!	11 he said to Moses: “I beg you, my lord, not to impose upon us this sin, which we have committed foolishly.
12 Let her not thus be like the stillborn babe that comes forth from its mother's womb with its flesh half consumed."	12 Do not let this one be like one who is dead, or like an abortion that has been cast from the womb of her mother. Behold, half of her flesh is already consumed by leprosy.”
13 Then Moses cried to the LORD, "Please, not this! Pray, heal her!"	13 And Moses cried out to the Lord, saying, “O God, I beg you: heal her.”
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 answered him: “If her father had spit on her face, should she not have been filled with shame for at least seven days? Let her be separated, outside the camp, for seven days, and after that, she will be called back.”
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 so Miriam was excluded from the camp for seven days. And the people did not move from that place, until Miriam was called back.
16 After that the people set out from Hazeroth and encamped in the desert of Paran.