Numbers
Chapter 12

Numbers Chapter 12
Bible in Basic English (bbe) Scriptures

Numbers 12:1

Now Miriam and Aaron said evil against Moses, because of the Cushite woman to whom he was married, for he had taken a Cushite woman as his wife.

Numbers 12:2

And they said, Have the words of the Lord been given to Moses only? have they not come to us? And the Lord took note of it.

Numbers 12:3

Now the man Moses was more gentle than any other man on earth.

Numbers 12:4

And suddenly the Lord said to Moses and Aaron and Miriam, Come out, you three, to the Tent of meeting. And the three of them went out.

Numbers 12:5

And the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud, taking his place at the door of the Tent, and made Aaron and Miriam come before him.

Numbers 12:6

And he said, Now give ear to my words: if there is a prophet among you I will give him knowledge of myself in a vision and will let my words come to him in a dream.

Numbers 12:7

My servant Moses is not so; he is true to me in all my house:



Numbers 12:8

With him I will have talk mouth to mouth, openly and not in dark sayings; and with his eyes he will see the form of the Lord: why then had you no fear of saying evil against my servant Moses?

Numbers 12:9

And burning with wrath against them, the Lord went away.

Numbers 12:10

And the cloud was moved from over the Tent; and straight away Miriam became a leper, as white as snow: and Aaron, looking at Miriam, saw that she was a leper.

Numbers 12:11

Then Aaron said to Moses, O my lord, let not our sin be on our heads, for we have done foolishly and are sinners.

Numbers 12:12

Let her not be as one dead, whose flesh is half wasted when he comes out from the body of his mother.

Numbers 12:13

And Moses, crying to the Lord, said, Let my prayer come before you, O God, and make her well.

Numbers 12:14

And the Lord said to Moses, If her father had put a mark of shame on her, would she not be shamed for seven days? Let her be shut up outside the tent-circle for seven days, and after that she may come in again.



Numbers 12:15

So Miriam was shut up outside the tent-circle for seven days: and the people did not go forward on their journey till Miriam had come in again.

Numbers 12:16

After that, the people went on from Hazeroth and put up their tents in the waste land of Paran.

Numbers Chapter 12 (bbe)


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