1 Miriam and Aaron were critical of Moses because of his Ethiopian wife—he'd married an Ethiopian woman. 2 “Is it only through Moses that the Lord speaks?” they asked. “Doesn't he speak through us too?” The Lord heard all this. 3 Moses was a very humble man, more than anyone else on earth. 4 All of a sudden the Lord called for Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, telling them, “The three of you, come to the Tent of Meeting.” The three of them did so. 5 The Lord came down in a pillar of cloud and stood in the entrance to the Tent. He called Aaron and Miriam and they came forward. 6 “Now listen to my words, he told them. If you had prophets, I the Lord would reveal myself to them in visions; I would communicate with them in dreams. 7 But it's not like this with my servant Moses, who of all my people is the one who is faithful. 8 I talk to him personally, face to face. I speak plainly, not in riddles. He sees the likeness of the Lord. So why weren't you afraid when you criticized my servant Moses?” 9 The Lord was angry with them, and he left. 10 As the cloud rose above the Tent, Miriam's skin suddenly turned white with leprosy. Aaron turned to look and saw that she had leprosy. 11 He said to Moses, “My lord, please don't punish us for this sin that we've so stupidly committed. 12 Please don't let her become like a stillborn baby whose flesh is already decaying when they're born!” 13 Moses called out to the Lord, “God, please heal her!” 14 But the Lord replied to Moses, “If her father had spit in her face wouldn't she have been disgraced for seven days? Keep her in isolation outside the camp for seven days, and then she can be taken back in.” 15 Miriam was kept in isolation outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on until she was taken back in. 16 Then the people left Hazeroth and set up camp in the Desert of Paran.
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Personas y lugares de este capítulo
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Personas
Miriam
The sister who watched over baby Moses and later led Israel in song.
Citado en la guía: 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.
Citado en la guía: Exodus 2–Deuteronomy 34
Referencias cruzadas (16)
Pasajes relacionados con cada versículo, del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, tal como los reúnen y ordenan los lectores de OpenBible.info.
- 1 Éxodo 2:21; Génesis 26:34–35; Génesis 27:46; Génesis 24:37; Gálatas 4:16
- 2 Ezequiel 35:12–13; Números 16:3; Filipenses 2:14; Isaías 37:4; Miqueas 6:4
- 3 Mateo 11:29; Santiago 3:13; Mateo 5:5; 2 Corintios 12:11; 2 Corintios 11:5
- 4 Salmo 76:9; Números 16:16–21
- 5 Números 11:25; Éxodo 34:5; Salmo 99:7; Éxodo 40:38
- 6 1 Reyes 3:5; Génesis 31:10–11; Génesis 46:2; Hechos 22:17–18; Lucas 1:22
- 7 Hebreos 3:2–6; Josué 1:1; Salmo 105:26; 1 Corintios 4:2; Mateo 11:11
- 8 Deuteronomio 34:10; 1 Corintios 13:12; Éxodo 33:11; Lucas 10:16; Éxodo 24:10–11
- 9 Números 11:1; Oseas 5:15; Génesis 17:22
- 10 Deuteronomio 24:9; 2 Reyes 5:27; 2 Crónicas 26:19–21; Éxodo 4:6; 2 Reyes 15:5
- 11 2 Samuel 24:10; 2 Samuel 19:19; Proverbios 30:32; 1 Samuel 12:19; 1 Reyes 13:6
- 12 Salmo 88:4–5; 1 Corintios 15:8; Efesios 2:1–5; Job 3:16; Salmo 58:8
- 13 Santiago 5:15; Romanos 12:21; Lucas 6:28; Lucas 23:34; Mateo 5:44–45
- 14 Deuteronomio 25:9; Job 30:10; Números 5:2–3; Isaías 50:6; Levítico 13:45–46
- 15 Deuteronomio 24:8–9; Miqueas 6:4; Miqueas 7:8–9; Habacuc 3:2; Lamentaciones 3:32
- 16 Números 11:35; Números 33:18; Números 10:12; Génesis 21:21; Habacuc 3:3
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… 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!
Leer en contexto · 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.
Leer en contexto · 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 …