Numbers 12

1And Miriam speaketh--Aaron also--against Moses concerning the circumstance of the Cushite woman whom he had taken: for a Cushite woman he had taken;

1And Mary and Aaron spoke against Moses, because of his wife the Ethiopian,

2and they say, `Only by Moses hath Jehovah spoken? also by us hath he not spoken?' and Jehovah heareth.

2And they said: Hath the Lord spoken by Moses only? Hath he not also spoken to us in like manner? And when the Lord heard this,

3And the man Moses <FI>is<Fi> very humble, more than any of the men who <FI>are<Fi> on the face of the ground.

3(For Moses was a man exceeding meek above all men that dwelt upon earth)

4And Jehovah saith suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, `Come out ye three unto the tent of meeting;' and they three come out.

4Immediately he spoke to him, and to Aaron and Mary: Come out you three only to the tabernacle of the covenant. And when they were come out,

5And Jehovah cometh down in the pillar of the cloud, and standeth at the opening of the tent, and calleth Aaron and Miriam, and they come out both of them.

5The Lord came down in a pillar of the cloud, and stood in the entry of the tabernacle calling to Aaron and Mary. And when they were come,

6And He saith, `Hear, I pray you, My words: If your prophet is of Jehovah--in an appearance unto him I make Myself known; in a dream I speak with him;

6He said to them: Hear my words: if there be among you a prophet of the Lord, I will appear to him in a vision, or I will speak to him in a dream.

7not so My servant Moses; in all My house he <FI>is<Fi> stedfast;

7But it is not so with my servant Moses who is most faithful in all my house:

8mouth unto mouth I speak with him, and <FI>by<Fi> an appearance, and not in riddles; and the form of Jehovah he beholdeth attentively; and wherefore have ye not been afraid to speak against My servant--against Moses?'

8For I speak to him mouth to mouth: and plainly, and not by riddles and figures doth he see the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak ill of my servant Moses?

9And the anger of Jehovah burneth against them, and He goeth on,

9And being angry with them he went away:

10and the cloud hath turned aside from off the tent, and lo, Miriam <FI>is<Fi> leprous as snow; and Aaron turneth unto Miriam, and lo, leprous!

10The cloud also that was over the tabernacle departed: and behold Mary appeared white as snow with a leprosy. And when Aaron had looked on her, and saw her all covered with leprosy,

11And Aaron saith unto Moses, `O, my lord, I pray thee, lay not upon us sin <FI>in<Fi> which we have been foolish, and <FI>in<Fi> which we have sinned;

11He said to Moses: I beseech thee, my lord, lay not upon us this sin, which we have foolishly committed:

12let her not, I pray thee, be as <FI>one<Fi> dead, when in his coming out from the womb of his mother--the half of his flesh is consumed.'

12Let her not be as one dead, and as an abortive that is cast forth from the mother's womb. Lo, now one half of her flesh is consumed with the leprosy.

13And Moses crieth unto Jehovah, saying, `O God, I pray Thee, give, I pray Thee, healing to her.'

13And Moses cried to the Lord, saying O God, I beseech thee heal her.

14And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `And her father had but spat in her face--is she not ashamed seven days? she is shut out seven days at the outside of the camp, and afterwards she is gathered.'

14And the Lord answered him: If her father had spitten upon her face, ought she not to have been ashamed for seven days at least? Let her be separated seven days without the camp, and afterwards she shall be called again.

15And Miriam is shut out at the outside of the camp seven days, and the people hath not journeyed till Miriam is gathered;

15Mary therefore was put out of the camp seven days: and the people moved not from that place until Mary was called again.

16and afterwards have the people journeyed from Hazeroth, and they encamp in the wilderness of Paran.

16(not in this translation)