Aaron and Miriam rise up against Moses
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📚✭And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married (for he had married an Ethiopian woman). 2 📚And they said, “Has the LORD indeed spoken only through Moses? Has he not spoken also through us?” And the LORD heard it. 3 📚✭(Now the man Moses was very meek, more so than anyone else on the face of the earth.)
4 📚✭And the LORD spoke suddenly to Moses, and to Aaron, and to Miriam, “You three come to the tabernacle of the congregation”. And the three of them came. 5 📚And the LORD came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in the doorway of the tabernacle and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forward. 6 📚✭And he said, “Listen now to my words. If there is a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known to him in a vision✭, and will speak to him in a dream✭. 7 📚Not so with my servant Moses who is faithful in all my household. 8 📚With him I will speak mouth to mouth✭, and openly, and not in riddles. And he sees the form✭ of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”
9 📚And the anger of the LORD burned against them, and he left them.
10 📚And the cloud went up from the tabernacle, and immediately Miriam became leprous, white as snow. And Aaron looked at Miriam, and saw that she was leprous✭. 11 📚✭And Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord, I beg you, do not lay this sin to our account, which we have foolishly committed and of which we are guilty. 12 📚Do not let her be like one dead, whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes from his mother’s womb”.
13 📚And Moses cried out to the LORD, saying, “Heal her now, O God, I beg you”.
14 📚✭And the LORD said to Moses, “If her father had only spit in her face, should she not be ashamed for seven days? Have her confined outside the camp for seven days, and after that let her be received inside again”. 15 📚And Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days; and the people did not set out until Miriam was brought in again.
16 📚And afterwards the people moved from Hazeroth, and camped in the desert of Paran.