Numbers 12:1-7 (New International Version)

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Miriam and Aaron Oppose Moses

1 Miriam¹ and Aaron began to talk against Moses because of his Cushite wife,² for he had married a Cushite. 2 "Has the LORD spoken only through Moses?" they asked. "Hasn't he also spoken through us?"³ And the LORD heard this.⁴ 3 (Now Moses was a very humble man,⁵ more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.) 4 At 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 came out. 5 Then the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud;⁶ he stood at the entrance to the Tent and summoned Aaron and Miriam. When both of them stepped forward, 6 he said, "Listen to my words: "When a prophet of the LORD is among you, I reveal⁷ myself to him in visions,⁸ I speak to him in dreams.⁹ 7 But this is not true of my servant Moses;¹⁰ he is faithful in all my house.¹¹

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