Numbers 12
Miriam and Aaron criticise Moses for his Cushite wife and question whether God speaks only through Moses. God rebukes them, declaring Moses uniquely faithful and that He speaks with Moses face to face. Miriam is struck with a skin disease for seven days, and the camp waits for her restoration.
NumbersChapter 12 of 3616 versesBerean Standard Bible
In this passage: MosesAaronMiriamCushHazeroth
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Then Miriam and Aaron criticized Moses because of the Cushite woman he had married, for he had taken a Cushite wife.
“Does the LORD speak only through Moses?” they said. “Does He not also speak through us?” And the LORD heard this.
Now Moses was a very humble man, more so than any man on the face of the earth.
And suddenly the LORD said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, “You three, come out to the Tent of Meeting.” So the three went out,
and the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud, stood at the entrance to the Tent, and summoned Aaron and Miriam. When both of them had stepped forward,
He said, “Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, will reveal Myself to him in a vision; I will speak to him in a dream.
Quoted in the Deeper Dive, day 36: How did Israel first hear Genesis 20?
But this is not so with My servant Moses; he is faithful in all My house.
Moses was faithful in all God's house — but Jesus deserves greater honor
“He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.”
Read Hebrews 3:2›I speak with him face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the LORD. Why then were you unafraid to speak against My servant Moses?”
So the anger of the LORD burned against them, and He departed.
As the cloud lifted from above the Tent, suddenly Miriam became leprous, white as snow. Aaron turned toward her, saw that she was leprous,
and said to Moses, “My lord, please do not hold against us this sin we have so foolishly committed.
Please do not let her be like a stillborn infant whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”
So Moses cried out to the LORD, “O God, please heal her!”
But the LORD answered Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Let her be confined outside the camp for seven days; after that she may be brought back in.”
So Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on until she was brought in again.
After that, the people set out from Hazeroth and camped in the Wilderness of Paran.
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Best Prayer Apps 2026: Hallow, Pray.com, PrayerMate & Doxa TestedWhere to keep your prayers, the answers to them, and your testimonies, compared app by app.Cross-references for Numbers 12
“Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.”
“One night at Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream, and God said, “Ask, and I will give it to you!””
“When the flocks were breeding, I saw in a dream that the streaked, spotted, and speckled males were mating with the females.”
“Since that time, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face—”
Numbers 12:81 Corinthians 13:12
“Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.”
Cross-references from OpenBible.info, licensed CC BY.
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- The Bible's First Prophet Is a Frightened Man Who Prays (Genesis 20) · Quoted in the Deeper Dive, day 36
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