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Chapter 12
Hazeroth, Complaints of Miriam and Aaron
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Miriam, and Aaron too, spoke against Moses in connexion with the Cushite woman[*a] he had taken. (For he had married a Cushite woman.)
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They said, ‘Has Yahweh spoken to Moses only? Has he not spoken to us too?’ Yahweh heard this.
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‘Now Moses was the most humble of men, the humblest man on earth.
God’s answer
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Suddenly, Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron and Miriam, ‘Come, all three of you, to the Tent of Meeting’. They went, all three of them,
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and Yahweh came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the Tent. He called Aaron and Miriam and they both came forward.
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Yahweh said, ‘Listen now to my words: If any man among you is a prophet I make myself known to him in a vision, I speak to him in a dream.
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Not so with my servant Moses: he is at home in my house;
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I speak with him face to face, plainly and not in riddles, and he sees the form of Yahweh. How then have you dared to speak against my servant Moses?’
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The anger of Yahweh blazed out against them. He departed,
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and as soon as the cloud withdrew from the Tent, there was Miriam a leper, white as snow! Aaron turned to look at her; she had become a leper.
The prayer of Aaron and Moses
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Aaron said to Moses: ‘Help me, my lord! Do not punish us for a sin committed in folly of which we are guilty.
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I entreat you, do not let her be like a monster, coming from its mother’s womb with flesh half corrupted.’
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Moses cried to Yahweh, ‘O God,’ he said ‘please heal her, I beg you!’
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Then Yahweh said to Moses, ‘If her father had done no more than spit in her face, would she not be a thing of shame for seven days? Let her be shut outside the camp for seven days, and then let her be brought in again.
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Miriam was shut outside the camp for seven days. The people did not set out until she returned.
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Then the people left Hazeroth, and camp was pitched in the wilderness of Paran.
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