Numbers

Chapter 12

Choose chapter (12 selected)

Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.

A dotted word is a harder one. Point at it, or tap it, for a short definition.

1Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses on account of the Cushite woman he had taken, for he had taken a Cushite woman.

Notes (1)

Translation
Kushit is a woman of Cush. The verse says it twice. Both clauses are printed. No family story is added.

2They said, Has Yahweh spoken only with Moses? Has he not spoken with us as well? And Yahweh heard.

3The man Moses was very humble, more than any human on the face of the ground.

Notes (1)

Text
The written consonants are ענו, without the yod. The Masoretic reading is עניו, “humble,” with the yod. “Humble” is printed for the written consonants. The yod is the difference.

4Yahweh said suddenly to Moses, to Aaron, and to Miriam, Come out, you three, to the tent of meeting. The three of them came out.

5Yahweh came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the door of the tent. He called Aaron and Miriam, and the two of them came out.

6He said, Hear my words, please. If there is a prophet among you, I, Yahweh, make myself known to him in a vision. In a dream I speak with him.

Notes (1)

Translation
The Hebrew line is compressed. “If there is a prophet among you” is printed, and Yahweh is the one who makes himself known.

7Not so my servant Moses. In all my house he is faithful.

8Mouth to mouth I speak with him, and in a sight, not in riddles, and he looks at the form of Yahweh. Why were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?

Notes (1)

Translation
Mar’eh is a sight, something seen plainly. Chidot are riddles. Temunat Yahweh is the form of Yahweh.

9Yahweh’s anger burned against them, and he went.

10The cloud turned aside from over the tent, and look, Miriam was struck with skin disease, like snow. Aaron turned toward Miriam, and look, she was struck with skin disease.

Notes (1)

Translation
Metzora’at is the skin disease of Leviticus. A modern disease name is not printed. “Like snow” is the comparison as written.

11Aaron said to Moses, Please, my lord, do not lay on us an offense by which we were foolish and by which we sinned.

12Please, do not let her be like the dead, whose flesh is half eaten when he comes out of his mother’s womb.

13Moses cried out to Yahweh, saying, God, please, heal her, please.

14Yahweh said to Moses, If her father had spit, spit in her face, would she not be humiliated seven days? Let her be shut out seven days outside the camp, and after that she may be gathered back.

Notes (1)

Translation
Yaroq yaraq is “spit, he had spit,” the verb said twice. Tikkalem is be humiliated. Tissager is be shut out.

15Miriam was shut out outside the camp seven days, and the people did not set out until Miriam was gathered back.

16After that the people set out from Hazeroth and camped in the wilderness of Paran.

Numbers

Chapter 12

A dotted word is a harder one. Point at it, or tap it, for a short definition.

1Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses on account of the Cushite woman he had taken, for he had taken a Cushite woman.

Notes (1)

Translation
Kushit is a woman of Cush. The verse says it twice. Both clauses are printed. No family story is added.

2They said, Has Yahweh spoken only with Moses? Has he not spoken with us as well? And Yahweh heard.

3The man Moses was very humble, more than any human on the face of the ground.

Notes (1)

Text
The written consonants are ענו, without the yod. The Masoretic reading is עניו, “humble,” with the yod. “Humble” is printed for the written consonants. The yod is the difference.

4Yahweh said suddenly to Moses, to Aaron, and to Miriam, Come out, you three, to the tent of meeting. The three of them came out.

5Yahweh came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the door of the tent. He called Aaron and Miriam, and the two of them came out.

6He said, Hear my words, please. If there is a prophet among you, I, Yahweh, make myself known to him in a vision. In a dream I speak with him.

Notes (1)

Translation
The Hebrew line is compressed. “If there is a prophet among you” is printed, and Yahweh is the one who makes himself known.

7Not so my servant Moses. In all my house he is faithful.

8Mouth to mouth I speak with him, and in a sight, not in riddles, and he looks at the form of Yahweh. Why were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?

Notes (1)

Translation
Mar’eh is a sight, something seen plainly. Chidot are riddles. Temunat Yahweh is the form of Yahweh.

9Yahweh’s anger burned against them, and he went.

10The cloud turned aside from over the tent, and look, Miriam was struck with skin disease, like snow. Aaron turned toward Miriam, and look, she was struck with skin disease.

Notes (1)

Translation
Metzora’at is the skin disease of Leviticus. A modern disease name is not printed. “Like snow” is the comparison as written.

11Aaron said to Moses, Please, my lord, do not lay on us an offense by which we were foolish and by which we sinned.

12Please, do not let her be like the dead, whose flesh is half eaten when he comes out of his mother’s womb.

13Moses cried out to Yahweh, saying, God, please, heal her, please.

14Yahweh said to Moses, If her father had spit, spit in her face, would she not be humiliated seven days? Let her be shut out seven days outside the camp, and after that she may be gathered back.

Notes (1)

Translation
Yaroq yaraq is “spit, he had spit,” the verb said twice. Tikkalem is be humiliated. Tissager is be shut out.

15Miriam was shut out outside the camp seven days, and the people did not set out until Miriam was gathered back.

16After that the people set out from Hazeroth and camped in the wilderness of Paran.