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Numbers 12

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Numbers 12

Números 12

(1-16) ¹Now Miriam and Aaron began to speak against Moses on account of the Cushite wife whom he had taken, because it was a Cushite wife he had taken. ²And they kept saying: “Is it just by Moses alone that Jehovah has spoken? Is it not by us also that he has spoken?” And Jehovah was listening. ³And the man Moses was by far the meekest of all the men who were upon the surface of the ground.

⁴Then Jehovah suddenly said to Moses and Aaron and Miriam: “Go out, the three of YOU, to the tent of meeting.” So the three of them went out. ⁵After that Jehovah came down in the pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tent and called Aaron and Miriam. At this both of them went out. ⁶And he went on to say: “Hear my words, please. If there came to be a prophet of YOURS for Jehovah, it would be in a vision I would make myself known to him. In a dream I would speak to him. ⁷Not so my servant Moses! He is being entrusted with all my house. ⁸Mouth to mouth I speak to him, thus showing him, and not by riddles; and the appearance of Jehovah is what he beholds. Why, then, did YOU not fear to speak against my servant, against Moses?”

⁹And Jehovah’s anger got to be hot against them, and he went his way. ¹⁰And the cloud turned away from over the tent, and, look! Miriam was struck with leprosy as white as snow. Then Aaron turned toward Miriam, and, look! she was struck with leprosy. ¹¹Immediately Aaron said to Moses: “Excuse me, my lord! Do not, please, attribute to us the sin in which we have acted foolishly and which we have committed! ¹²Please, do not let her continue like someone dead, whose flesh at the time of his coming out of his mother’s womb is half eaten off!” ¹³And Moses began to cry out to Jehovah, saying: “O God, please! Heal her, please!”

¹⁴Then Jehovah said to Moses: “Were her father to spit directly in her face, would she not be humiliated seven days? Let her be quarantined seven days outside the camp, and afterward let her be received in.” ¹⁵Accordingly Miriam was quarantined outside the camp seven days, and the people did not pull away until Miriam was received in. ¹⁶And afterward the people pulled away from Hazeroth and took up camping in the wilderness of Paran.

(1-16) ¹Miriam and Aaron began to talk against Moses because of his Cushite wife, for he had married a Cushite. ²“Has the LORD spoken only through Moses?” they asked. “Hasn’t he also spoken through us?” And the LORD heard this. ³(Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.) ⁴At 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. ⁵Then the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud; he stood at the entrance to the tent and summoned Aaron and Miriam. When the two of them stepped forward, ⁶he said, “Listen to my words: ⁷But this is not true of my servant Moses;
   he is faithful in all my house.
⁸With him I speak face to face,
   clearly and not in riddles;
   he sees the form of the LORD.
Why then were you not afraid
   to speak against my servant Moses?” ⁹The anger of the LORD burned against them, and he left them. ¹⁰When the cloud lifted from above the tent, Miriam’s skin was leprous—it became as white as snow. Aaron turned toward her and saw that she had a defiling skin disease, ¹¹and he said to Moses, “Please, my lord, I ask you not to hold against us the sin we have so foolishly committed. ¹²Do not let her be like a stillborn infant coming from its mother’s womb with its flesh half eaten away.” ¹³So Moses cried out to the LORD, “Please, God, heal her!” ¹⁴The LORD replied to Moses, “If her father had spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Confine her outside the camp for seven days; after that she can be brought back.” ¹⁵So Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on till she was brought back. ¹⁶After that, the people left Hazeroth and encamped in the Desert of Paran.

(1-16) ¹Ahora bien, Míriam y Aarón empezaron a hablar contra Moisés con motivo de la esposa cusita que él había tomado, porque era esposa cusita la que había tomado. ²Y siguieron diciendo: “¿Es simplemente por Moisés solo por quien Jehová ha hablado? ¿No ha hablado también por nosotros?”. Y Jehová estaba escuchando. ³Y el hombre Moisés era con mucho el más manso de todos los hombres que había sobre la superficie del suelo.

⁴Entonces, de repente Jehová dijo a Moisés y Aarón y Míriam: “Salgan, ustedes tres, a la tienda de reunión”. De modo que los tres salieron. ⁵Después Jehová descendió en la columna de nube y se situó a la entrada de la tienda y llamó a Aarón y Míriam. Ante esto, ambos salieron. ⁶Y él pasó a decir: “Oigan mis palabras, por favor. Si llegara a haber un profeta de ustedes para Jehová, sería en una visión como me daría a conocer a él. En un sueño le hablaría. ⁷¡No así con mi siervo Moisés! Tiene confiada a él toda mi casa. ⁸Boca a boca le hablo, y así le muestro, y no por enigmas; y la apariencia de Jehová es lo que él contempla. ¿Por qué, pues, no temieron hablar contra mi siervo, contra Moisés?”.

⁹Y la cólera de Jehová se enardeció contra ellos, y él procedió a irse. ¹⁰Y la nube se apartó de sobre la tienda, y, ¡mire!, Míriam estaba herida de lepra tan blanca como la nieve. Entonces Aarón se volvió hacia Míriam, y, ¡mire!, estaba herida de lepra. ¹¹Al instante Aarón dijo a Moisés: “¡Dispénsame, señor mío! ¡Por favor, no nos atribuyas el pecado en que hemos obrado tontamente y que hemos cometido! ¹²¡Por favor, no la dejes continuar como alguien [que está] muerto, cuya carne al tiempo de salir de la matriz de su madre se halla medio consumida!”. ¹³Y Moisés se puso a clamar a Jehová, y a decir: “¡Oh Dios, por favor! ¡Sánala, por favor!”.

¹⁴Entonces Jehová dijo a Moisés: “Si el padre de ella le escupiera directamente en la cara, ¿no quedaría humillada siete días? Que esté en cuarentena siete días fuera del campamento, y que sea admitida después”. ¹⁵Por consiguiente, Míriam fue puesta en cuarentena siete días fuera del campamento, y el pueblo no partió hasta que Míriam fue admitida. ¹⁶Y después el pueblo partió de Hazerot, y se pusieron a acampar en el desierto de Parán.