New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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1 Miriam and Aaron began to speak against
Moses. They blamed him for his Cushite wife (for he had married a
Cushite woman),
2 and they said, ‘Is Moses the only one with note whom the
Lord has spoken?
3 Has he not spoken with note us as well?’ Moses was in
fact a man of great humility, the most humble man on earth. But the
Lord heard them and suddenly he said to Moses,
4 Aaron and Miriam,
‘Go out all three of you to the Tent of the Presence.’ So the three went
out, and the Lord descended in a pillar of cloud;
5 he stood at the
entrance to the tent and summoned Aaron and Miriam. The two of
them went forward,
6 and he said,
‘Listen to my words.
If he note were your prophet and nothing more,
I would make myself known to him in a vision,
I would speak with him in a dream.
7 But my servant Moses is not such a prophet;
he alone is faithful note of all my household.
8 With him I speak face to face,
openly and not in riddles.
He shall see the very form of the Lord.
How do you dare speak against my servant Moses?’
9 Thus the anger of the Lord was roused against them, and he left
them;
10 and as the cloud moved from the tent, there was Miriam, her
skin diseased and white as snow. Aaron turned towards her and saw her
skin diseased.
11 Then he said to Moses, ‘Pray, my lord, do not make us
pay the penalty of sin, foolish and wicked though we have been.
12 Let her not be like something still-born, whose flesh is half eaten away
when it comes from the womb.’
13 So Moses cried, ‘Not this, O Lord!
Heal her, I pray.’
14 The Lord replied, ‘Suppose her father had spat in
her face, would she not have to remain in disgrace for seven days? Let
her be kept for seven days in confinement outside the camp and then
be brought back.’
15 So Miriam was kept outside for seven days, and the
people did not strike camp until she was brought back.
16 After this they
set out from Hazeroth and pitched camp in the wilderness of Paran.
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The journey from Sinai to Edom
New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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