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Numbers 12:11Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman he had married (for he had married an Ethiopian woman).Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 2:21Gen 26:34-35Gen 24:37Gen 27:46Gal 4:16Gen 24:3Gen 28:6-9Gen 34:14-15John 7:5Matt 10:36
Numbers 12:22They said, “Has the Lord spoken only through Moses? Has he not also spoken through us?” And the Lord heard it.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 35:12-13Num 16:3Isa 37:4Mic 6:4Phil 2:14Phil 2:32 Kgs 19:4Num 11:1Rom 12:101 Pet 5:5
Numbers 12:33(Now the man Moses was very humble, more so than any man on the face of the earth.)Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 11:29Jas 3:132 Cor 11:52 Cor 12:11Matt 5:51 Pet 3:41 Thess 2:7Jas 3:2-3Matt 21:5Num 11:10-15
Numbers 12:44The Lord spoke immediately to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam: “The three of you come to the tent of meeting.” So the three of them went.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 76:9Num 16:16-21
Numbers 12:55And the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tent; he then called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forward.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 11:25Exod 34:5Exod 40:38Ps 99:7
Numbers 12:66The Lord said, “Hear now my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known to him in a vision; I will speak with him in a dream.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 3:5Gen 31:10-11Gen 46:2Acts 22:17-18Luke 1:22Dan 10:8Luke 1:11Ezek 1:1Acts 10:11Dan 8:2
Numbers 12:77My servant Moses is not like this; he is faithful in all my house.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 3:2-6Josh 1:1Ps 105:261 Cor 4:2Matt 11:111 Pet 2:4-51 Tim 3:15Acts 3:22-23Acts 7:31Deut 18:18
Numbers 12:88With him I will speak face to face, openly and not in riddles, and he will see the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 34:101 Cor 13:12Exod 33:11Exod 24:10-11Exod 33:23Luke 10:162 Cor 4:4-6John 14:7-10John 15:152 Pet 2:10
Numbers 12:99The anger of the Lord burned against them, and he departed.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 17:22Hos 5:15Num 11:1
Numbers 12:1010After the cloud had departed from above the tent, there was Miriam, leprous like snow. Then Aaron turned toward Miriam, and realized that she was leprous.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 24:92 Kgs 5:272 Chr 26:19-21Exod 4:62 Kgs 15:5Exod 33:7-10Ezek 10:18-19Ezek 10:4-5Hos 9:12Lev 13:2-46
Numbers 12:1111So Aaron said to Moses, “O my lord, please do not hold this sin against us, in which we have acted foolishly and have sinned!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Sam 19:192 Sam 24:10Prov 30:321 Kgs 13:61 Sam 12:191 Sam 15:24-251 Sam 2:302 Chr 16:9Acts 8:24Exod 12:32
Numbers 12:1212Do not let her be like a baby born dead, whose flesh is half consumed when it comes out of its mother’s womb!”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 88:4-51 Cor 15:81 Tim 5:6Eph 2:1-5Job 3:16Ps 58:8Col 2:13
Numbers 12:1313Then Moses cried to the Lord, “Heal her now, O God.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 5:15Luke 6:28Rom 12:211 Sam 12:231 Sam 15:11Exod 32:10-14Isa 30:26Jer 17:14Luke 23:34Matt 5:44-45
Numbers 12:1414The Lord said to Moses, “If her father had only spit in her face, would she not have been disgraced for seven days? Shut her out from the camp seven days, and afterward she can be brought back in again.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 25:9Job 30:10Isa 50:6Num 5:2-3Lev 13:45-462 Chr 26:20-21Heb 12:9Job 17:6Lev 14:8Matt 26:67
Numbers 12:1515So Miriam was shut outside of the camp for seven days, and the people did not journey on until Miriam was brought back in.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 24:8-9Hab 3:2Lam 3:32Mic 6:4Mic 7:8-9Exod 20:12Gen 9:21-23
Numbers 12:1616After that the people moved from Hazeroth and camped in the wilderness of Paran.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 11:35Num 33:18Num 10:121 Sam 25:1Gen 21:21Hab 3:3Num 13:26Num 13:3
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