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among are six hundred thousand men on foot; around the camp. But while the meat was still
yet You have said, ‘I will give them meat, that between their teeth, before it was chewed, the
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they may eat for a whole month.’ Shall flocks wrath of the LORD was aroused against the
and herds be slaughtered for them, to provide people, and the LORD struck the people with a
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enough for them? Or shall all the fish of the very great plague. So he called the name of
sea be gathered together for them, to provide that place Kibroth Hattaavah, because there
enough for them?” they buried the people who had yielded to
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LORD’s arm been shortened? Now you shall 35 From Kibroth Hattaavah the people moved
see whether what I say will happen to you or to Hazeroth, and camped at Hazeroth.
not.” Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against
24 So Moses went out and told the people the 12 Moses because of the Ethiopian woman
words of the LORD, and he gathered the sev- whom he had married; for he had married an
enty men of the elders of the people and Ethiopian woman. So they said, “Has the
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placed them around the tabernacle. Then the LORD indeed spoken only through Moses?
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LORD came down in the cloud, and spoke to Has He not spoken through us also?” And the
him, and took of the Spirit that was upon him, LORD heard it. (Now the man Moses was very
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and placed the same upon the seventy elders; humble, more than all men who were on the
and it happened, when the Spirit rested upon face of the earth.)
them, that they prophesied, although they 4 Suddenly the LORD said to Moses, Aaron,
never did so again. and Miriam, “Come out, you three, to the tab-
26 But two men had remained in the camp: ernacle of meeting!” So the three came out.
the name of one was Eldad, and the name of 5 Then the LORD came down in the pillar of
the other Medad. And the Spirit rested upon cloud and stood in the door of the tabernacle,
them. Now they were among those listed, but and called Aaron and Miriam. And they both
who had not gone out to the tabernacle; yet went forward. Then He said,
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they prophesied in the camp. And a young “Hear now My words:
man ran and told Moses, and said, “Eldad and If there is a prophet among you,
Medad are prophesying in the camp.”
28 So Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ assis- I, the LORD, make Myself known to him
in a vision;
tant, one of his choice men, answered and I speak to him in a dream.
said, “Moses my lord, forbid them!” 7
29 Then Moses said to him, “Are you zealous Not so with My servant Moses;
for my sake? Oh, that all the LORD’s people 8 He is faithful in all My house.
I speak with him face to face,
were prophets and that the LORD would put Even plainly, and not in dark sayings;
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His Spirit upon them!” And Moses returned And he sees the form of the LORD.
to the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
Why then were you not afraid
To speak against My servant Moses?”
9 So the anger of the LORD was aroused
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11:29 that the LORD would put His Spirit against them, and He departed. And when
upon them! Moses desired and anticipated the cloud departed from above the tabernacle,
the day when all of God’s people would have suddenly Miriam became leprous, as white as
His Spirit within them. By this, he looked for- snow. Then Aaron turned toward Miriam, and
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ward to the New Covenant. (See Ezek. there she was, a leper. So Aaron said to
36:22–27; Jer. 31:31ff.; Joel 2:28.) Moses, “Oh, my lord! Please do not lay this sin
on us, in which we have done foolishly and in
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which we have sinned. Please do not let her
31 Now a wind went out from the LORD, and it be as one dead, whose flesh is half consumed
brought quail from the sea and left them flut- when he comes out of his mother’s womb!”
tering near the camp, about a day’s journey on 13 So Moses cried out to the LORD, saying,
this side and about a day’s journey on the “Please heal her, O God, I pray!”
other side, all around the camp, and about two 14 Then the LORD said to Moses, “If her
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cubits above the surface of the ground. And father had but spit in her face, would she not
the people stayed up all that day, all night, and be shamed seven days? Let her be shut out of
all the next day, and gathered the quail (he the camp seven days, and afterward she may
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who gathered least gathered ten homers); and be received again.” So Miriam was shut out
they spread them out for themselves all of the camp seven days, and the people did not
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