12 1 Aaron and Miriam grudge against Moses.  10 Miriam is stricken with leprosy, and healed at the prayer of Moses.

Afterward Miriam and Aaron [a]spake against Moses, because of the woman of Ethiopia whom he had married (for he had married [b]a woman of Ethiopia.)

And they said, What? hath the Lord spoken but only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? and the Lord heard this.

(But Moses was a very [c]meek man above all the men that were upon the earth.)

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 12:1 Or, murmured.
  2. Numbers 12:1 Zipporah Moses’ wife was a Midianite, and because Midian bordered on Ethiopia, it is sometimes in the Scriptures comprehended under this name.
  3. Numbers 12:3 And so bare with their grudging, although he knew them.

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