1 Pero Miriam y Aarón criticaban a Moisés por su esposa, pues Moisés se había casado con una mujer etíope. 2 “¿Acaso el Señor solo habla a través de Moisés?” , cuestionaban. “¿No habla también a través de nosotros?” Y el Señor escuchó todo esto. 3 Moisés era un hombre muy humilde, más que nadie en la tierra. 4 De repente el Señor llamó a Moisés, Aarón y Miriam, diciéndoles: “Ustedes tres, vengan al Tabernáculo de Reunión”.Y los tres lo hicieron. 5 El Señor bajó en una columna de nube y se paró en la entrada de la Tienda. Llamó a Aarón y a Miriam y ellos se adelantaron. 6 “Escuchen mis palabras, les dijo. Si tuvieran profetas, yo, el Señor, me revelaría a ellos en visiones; me comunicaría con ellos en sueños. 7 Pero no es así con mi siervo Moisés, que de todo mi pueblo es el que me es fiel. 8 Yo hablo con él personalmente, cara a cara. Hablo claramente, y no con acertijos. Él ve la semejanza del Señor. Entonces, ¿por qué no tuvieron miedo al criticar a mi siervo Moisés?” 9 Entonces el Señor se enfadó con ellos, y se fue. 10 Cuando la nube se elevó sobre la Tienda, la piel de Miriam se volvió repentinamente blanca por la lepra. Aarón se volvió a mirar y vio que tenía lepra. 11 Le dijo a Moisés: “Señor mío, por favor no nos castigues por este pecado que hemos cometido tan estúpidamente. 12 Por favor, no dejes que me convierta en un moribundo cuya carne ya se está pudriendo cuando nace!” 13 Moisés clamó al Señor: “¡Dios, por favor, cúrala!” 14 Pero el Señor le respondió a Moisés: “Si su padre le hubiera escupido en la cara, ¿no habría sido deshonrosa durante siete días? Mantenla aislada fuera del campamento durante siete días, y luego podrá regresar”. 15 Miriam quedó en aislamiento fuera del campamento durante siete días, y el pueblo no avanzó hasta que fue llevada de vuelta. 16 Entonces el pueblo se fue de Jazerot y se instaló en el desierto de Parán.
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Miriam
The sister who watched over baby Moses and later led Israel in song.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 2:1–8; 15:20–21; Numbers 12
Moses
Drawn from the Nile, he led Israel out of Egypt and received God's Law.
Cited in the guide: Exodus 2–Deuteronomy 34
Cross references (16)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Exodus 2:21; Genesis 26:34–35; Genesis 27:46; Genesis 24:37; Galatians 4:16
- 2 Ezekiel 35:12–13; Numbers 16:3; Philippians 2:14; Isaiah 37:4; Micah 6:4
- 3 Matthew 11:29; James 3:13; Matthew 5:5; 2 Corinthians 12:11; 2 Corinthians 11:5
- 4 Psalm 76:9; Numbers 16:16–21
- 5 Numbers 11:25; Exodus 34:5; Psalm 99:7; Exodus 40:38
- 6 1 Kings 3:5; Genesis 31:10–11; Genesis 46:2; Acts 22:17–18; Luke 1:22
- 7 Hebrews 3:2–6; Joshua 1:1; Psalm 105:26; 1 Corinthians 4:2; Matthew 11:11
- 8 Deuteronomy 34:10; 1 Corinthians 13:12; Exodus 33:11; Luke 10:16; Exodus 24:10–11
- 9 Numbers 11:1; Hosea 5:15; Genesis 17:22
- 10 Deuteronomy 24:9; 2 Kings 5:27; 2 Chronicles 26:19–21; Exodus 4:6; 2 Kings 15:5
- 11 2 Samuel 24:10; 2 Samuel 19:19; Proverbs 30:32; 1 Samuel 12:19; 1 Kings 13:6
- 12 Psalm 88:4–5; 1 Corinthians 15:8; Ephesians 2:1–5; Job 3:16; Psalm 58:8
- 13 James 5:15; Romans 12:21; Luke 6:28; Luke 23:34; Matthew 5:44–45
- 14 Deuteronomy 25:9; Job 30:10; Numbers 5:2–3; Isaiah 50:6; Leviticus 13:45–46
- 15 Deuteronomy 24:8–9; Micah 6:4; Micah 7:8–9; Habakkuk 3:2; Lamentations 3:32
- 16 Numbers 11:35; Numbers 33:18; Numbers 10:12; Genesis 21:21; Habakkuk 3:3
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
… righteous man, and blameless, truthful, God-fearing, and one that kept himself from all evil." But bringing an accusation against himself, he said, "No man is free from defilement, even if his life be but of one day." Moses was called faithful in all God's house; and through his instrumentality, God punished Egypt with plagues and tortures.
… Moses himself, being a man of God, was indeed given as a god before Pharaoh; but he is not properly termed Lord, nor is called God by the prophets, but is spoken of by the Spirit as "Moses, the faithful minister and servant of God," which also he was.
Then afterwards great men whom we know, whom Holy Scriptures commends, Moses faithful in all his house. And yet those three are named, just as if they alone deserved well of him: "I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob: this is my name for ever." Sublime mystery!
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)
… who is doing this, He saith unto him, "Mourn not thou for Saul." Though for his own sister one entreat, when it is not fitting, he again shall have the same sort of answer as Moses, "If her father had but spit in her face." Let us not then be looking open-mouthed towards others.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
And what wonder is it if those in Christ who were entrusted with such a duty by God, appointed those [ministers] before mentioned, when the blessed Moses also, "a faithful servant in all his house," noted down in the sacred books all the injunctions which were given him, and when the other prophets also followed him, bearing witness with one …