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Mi-ri-am và A-rôn phê bình Mô-se

12 Mi-ri-am và A-rôn bắt đầu chỉ trích về người vợ gốc xứ Cút [a] của Mô-se vì ông đã lấy một người ở xứ Cút làm vợ. Họ nói, “Chẳng lẽ CHÚA chỉ phán qua có một mình Mô-se sao? Ngài không phán qua chúng ta được hay sao?”

CHÚA nghe lời bình phẩm đó. Mô-se là một người rất nhún nhường. Ông khiêm tốn hơn tất cả mọi người trên đất. Bỗng nhiên CHÚA nói với Mô-se, A-rôn, và Mi-ri-am. Ngài bảo, “Cả ba các con hãy đi đến Lều Họp.” Vậy họ đi.

CHÚA ngự xuống trong đám mây và đứng nơi cửa Lều. Ngài gọi A-rôn và Mi-ri-am, thì cả hai lại gần. CHÚA bảo, “Hãy nghe đây: Nếu giữa vòng các ngươi có một nhà tiên tri thì Ta, CHÚA, sẽ tỏ mình ta ra bằng một sự hiện thấy; ta sẽ nói chuyện với người đó qua chiêm bao. Nhưng trường hợp Mô-se, tôi tớ ta, thì không phải như vậy. Ta giao cho người dẫn dắt toàn dân ta. Ta nói chuyện với người mặt đối mặt rõ ràng, không có gì kín giấu. Thậm chí người cũng đã thấy hình dạng của CHÚA. Các ngươi không nên nói xấu Mô-se, tôi tớ ta.”

CHÚA rất bất bình với họ, rồi Ngài ngự đi. 10 Khi đám mây cất lên khỏi Lều và khi A-rôn quay về phía Mi-ri-am thì bà đã bị bệnh ngoài da trắng như tuyết.

11 A-rôn kêu cùng Mô-se, “Thầy ơi, làm ơn. Xin tha lỗi dại dột nầy của chúng tôi. 12 Đừng để chị ấy giống như em bé sinh non bị chết yểu vì da thịt bị ăn khuyết.”

13 Nên Mô-se kêu xin cùng CHÚA, “Chúa ôi, xin chữa lành cho chị con!”

14 CHÚA trả lời Mô-se, “Nếu cha nàng phỉ nhổ trên mặt nàng, nàng phải bị sỉ nhục trong bảy ngày. Vậy hãy cho nàng ra ở ngoài doanh trại trong bảy ngày. Sau đó nàng có thể trở lại trại.”

15 Vậy Mi-ri-am bị cho ra ở ngoài doanh trại trong bảy ngày, còn dân chúng chờ nàng về rồi mới ra đi. 16 Sau đó, dân chúng rời Ha-xê-rốt và đóng trại trong sa mạc Pha-ran.

Footnotes

  1. Dân Số 12:1 Cút Hay “Ê-thi-ô-bi.” Một quốc gia nằm ở Đông Phi.

Miriam and Aaron Oppose Moses

12 Miriam(A) and Aaron began to talk against Moses because of his Cushite wife,(B) for he had married a Cushite. “Has the Lord spoken only through Moses?” they asked. “Hasn’t he also spoken through us?”(C) And the Lord heard this.(D)

(Now Moses was a very humble man,(E) more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.)

At once the Lord said to Moses, Aaron and Miriam, “Come out to the tent of meeting, all three of you.” So the three of them went out. Then the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud;(F) he stood at the entrance to the tent and summoned Aaron and Miriam. When the two of them stepped forward, he said, “Listen to my words:

“When there is a prophet among you,
    I, the Lord, reveal(G) myself to them in visions,(H)
    I speak to them in dreams.(I)
But this is not true of my servant Moses;(J)
    he is faithful in all my house.(K)
With him I speak face to face,
    clearly and not in riddles;(L)
    he sees the form of the Lord.(M)
Why then were you not afraid
    to speak against my servant Moses?”(N)

The anger of the Lord burned against them,(O) and he left them.(P)

10 When the cloud lifted from above the tent,(Q) Miriam’s skin was leprous[a]—it became as white as snow.(R) Aaron turned toward her and saw that she had a defiling skin disease,(S) 11 and he said to Moses, “Please, my lord, I ask you not to hold against us the sin we have so foolishly committed.(T) 12 Do not let her be like a stillborn infant coming from its mother’s womb with its flesh half eaten away.”

13 So Moses cried out to the Lord, “Please, God, heal her!(U)

14 The Lord replied to Moses, “If her father had spit in her face,(V) would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Confine her outside the camp(W) for seven days; after that she can be brought back.” 15 So Miriam was confined outside the camp(X) for seven days,(Y) and the people did not move on till she was brought back.

16 After that, the people left Hazeroth(Z) and encamped in the Desert of Paran.(AA)

Footnotes

  1. Numbers 12:10 The Hebrew for leprous was used for various diseases affecting the skin.

Miriam and Aaron Oppose Moses

12 Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman. And they said, “Has the Lord indeed spoken only through Moses? (A)Has he not spoken through us also?” And (B)the Lord heard it. Now the man Moses was very meek, more than all people who were on the face of the earth. And suddenly the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron and Miriam, “Come out, you three, to the tent of meeting.” And the three of them came out. And (C)the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tent and called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forward. And he said, “Hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the Lord make myself known to him (D)in a vision; I speak with him (E)in a dream. Not so with (F)my servant Moses. (G)He is faithful in all my house. With him I speak (H)mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in (I)riddles, and he beholds (J)the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?” And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them, and he departed.

10 When the cloud removed from over the tent, behold, (K)Miriam was (L)leprous,[a] like snow. And Aaron turned toward Miriam, and behold, she was leprous. 11 And Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord, (M)do not punish us[b] because we have done foolishly and have sinned. 12 Let her not be as one dead, whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes out of his mother's womb.” 13 And Moses cried to the Lord, “O God, please heal her—please.” 14 But the Lord said to Moses, “If her father had but (N)spit in her face, should she not be shamed seven days? Let her be (O)shut outside the camp seven days, and after that she may be brought in again.” 15 So Miriam (P)was shut outside the camp seven days, and the people did not set out on the march till Miriam was brought in again. 16 After that the people set out from (Q)Hazeroth, and camped in (R)the wilderness of Paran.

Footnotes

  1. Numbers 12:10 Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13
  2. Numbers 12:11 Hebrew do not lay sin upon us