Numeri 12
Het Boek
De kritiek van Mirjam en Aäron
12 Op een dag spraken Mirjam en Aäron er Mozes op aan dat hij met een Ethiopische vrouw was getrouwd. 2 Zij zeiden: ‘Heeft de Here soms alleen via Mozes gesproken? Heeft Hij ook niet via ons gesproken?’ De Here hoorde dat. 3 Mozes was echter de zachtmoedigste man op aarde. 4 Onmiddellijk ontbood de Here Mozes, Aäron en Mirjam in de tabernakel: ‘Kom hier, jullie drieën,’ was zijn bevel. Zo stonden zij daar voor de Here. 5 Toen daalde de Here neer in de wolk en stond bij de ingang van de tabernakel. ‘Aäron en Mirjam, doe een stap naar voren,’ beval Hij, zij deden een stap naar voren. 6 De Here zei: ‘Luister naar wat Ik u zeg: met een profeet zou Ik alleen spreken door middel van visioenen en dromen, 7,8 maar zo spreek Ik niet met mijn dienaar Mozes. Hij is trouw in alles wat mijn huis aangaat. Ik spreek persoonlijk met hem. Hij ziet de gestalte van God! Hoe hebben jullie het gedurfd kritiek te hebben op mijn knecht Mozes?’ 9 Toen richtte de toorn van de Here zich tegen hen en Hij verliet hen. 10 Terwijl de wolk boven de tabernakel wegtrok, werd Mirjam plotseling helemaal wit van de melaatsheid. Toen Aäron zag wat er was gebeurd, 11 riep hij smekend naar Mozes: ‘Och heer, straf ons niet voor onze zonde, het was dwaas van ons zoiets te doen. 12 Laat haar toch niet zijn als een doodgeborene, van wie het vlees al half is weggerot bij de geboorte.’ 13 Mozes riep naar de Here: ‘O, God, genees haar toch! Ik smeek het U!’ 14 De Here zei tegen Mozes: ‘Als haar vader haar in het gezicht had gespuugd, zou zij zich dan niet zeven dagen lang schamen en haar vader niet onder ogen komen? Sluit haar zeven dagen buiten het kamp, daarna kan zij weer terugkomen.’ 15 Zo werd Mirjam zeven dagen uit het kamp verstoten en het volk wachtte op het einde van die periode voordat het verder trok. 16 Daarna verlieten zij Chaserot en sloegen hun kamp op in de Paran-woestijn.
Numbers 12
Good News Translation
Miriam Is Punished
12 Moses had married a Cushite[a] woman, and Miriam and Aaron criticized him for it. 2 They said, “Has the Lord spoken only through[b] Moses? Hasn't he also spoken through[c] us?” The Lord heard what they said. (3 (A)Moses was a humble man, more humble than anyone else on earth.)
4 Suddenly the Lord said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, “I want the three of you to come out to the Tent of my presence.” They went, 5 and the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud, stood at the entrance of the Tent, and called out, “Aaron! Miriam!” The two of them stepped forward, 6 and the Lord said, “Now hear what I have to say! When there are prophets among you,[d] I reveal myself to them in visions and speak to them in dreams. 7 (B)It is different when I speak with my servant Moses; I have put him in charge of all my people Israel.[e] 8 So I speak to him face-to-face, clearly and not in riddles; he has even seen my form! How dare you speak against my servant Moses?”
9 The Lord was angry with them; and so as he departed 10 and the cloud left the Tent, Miriam's skin was suddenly covered with a dreaded disease and turned as white as snow. When Aaron looked at her and saw that she was covered with the disease, 11 he said to Moses, “Please, sir, do not make us suffer this punishment for our foolish sin. 12 Don't let her become like something born dead with half its flesh eaten away.”
13 So Moses cried out to the Lord, “O God, heal her!”
14 (C)The Lord answered, “If her father had spit in her face, she would have to bear her disgrace for seven days. So let her be shut out of the camp for a week, and after that she can be brought back in.” 15 Miriam was shut out of the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on until she was brought back in. 16 Then they left Hazeroth and set up camp in the wilderness of Paran.
Footnotes
- Numbers 12:1 Cushite (compare Hb 3.7); or Midianite; or Ethiopian.
- Numbers 12:2 through; or to.
- Numbers 12:2 through; or to.
- Numbers 12:6 Some ancient translations When … you; Hebrew unclear.
- Numbers 12:7 I have put … Israel; or he can be trusted with all my affairs.
Numbers 12
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
12 Now Miriam and Aaron talked against Moses [their brother] because of his [a]Cushite wife, for he had married a Cushite woman.
2 And they said, Has the Lord indeed spoken only by Moses? Has He not spoken also by us? And the Lord heard it.
3 Now the man Moses was very meek (gentle, kind, and humble) or above all the men on the face of the earth.
4 Suddenly the Lord said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, Come out, you three, to the Tent of Meeting. And the three of them came out.
5 The Lord came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the Tent door and called Aaron and Miriam, and they came forward.
6 And He said, Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I the Lord make Myself known to him in a vision and speak to him in a dream.
7 But not so with My servant Moses; he is entrusted and faithful in all My house.(A)
8 With him I speak mouth to mouth [directly], clearly and not in dark speeches; and he beholds the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against My servant Moses?
9 And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them, and He departed.
10 And when the cloud departed from over the Tent, behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. And Aaron looked at Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous!
11 And Aaron said to Moses, Oh, my lord, I plead with you, lay not the sin upon us in which we have done foolishly and in which we have sinned.
12 Let her not be as one dead, already half decomposed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.
13 And Moses cried to the Lord, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech You!
14 And the Lord said to Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed for seven days? Let her be shut up outside the camp for seven days, and after that let her be brought in again.
15 So Miriam was shut up without the camp for seven days, and the people did not journey on until Miriam was brought in again.
16 Afterward [they] removed from Hazeroth and encamped in the Wilderness of Paran.
Footnotes
- Numbers 12:1 Zipporah, Moses’ wife, seems to have died some time before. Marriage with a Canaanite was forbidden, but not with an Egyptian or Cushite. Joseph’s wife was an Egyptian (Gen. 41:45).
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