Numbers 12:2   (Read all of Numbers 12)

"Has the Lord spoken only through Moses?" they asked. "Hasn't he also spoken through us?" And the Lord heard this.

Numbers 12:4   (Read all of Numbers 12)

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 went out.

Numbers 12:5   (Read all of Numbers 12)

Then 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,

Numbers 12:6   (Read all of Numbers 12)

he said, "Listen to my words: "When there is a prophet among you, I, the Lord, reveal myself to them in visions, I speak to them in dreams.

Numbers 12:7   (Read all of Numbers 12)

But this is not true of my servant Moses; he is faithful in all my house.

Numbers 12:8   (Read all of Numbers 12)

With 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?"

Numbers 12:10   (Read all of Numbers 12)

When 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,

Numbers 12:11   (Read all of Numbers 12)

and he said to Moses, "Please, my lord, I ask you not to hold against us the sin we have so foolishly committed.

Numbers 12:12   (Read all of Numbers 12)

Do not let her be like a stillborn infant coming from its mother's womb with its flesh half eaten away."

Numbers 12:13   (Read all of Numbers 12)

So Moses cried out to the Lord, "Please, God, heal her!"

Numbers 12:14   (Read all of Numbers 12)

The 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."

Numbers 12:15   (Read all of Numbers 12)

So Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on till she was brought back.

Numbers 13:1   (Read all of Numbers 13)

The Lord said to Moses,

Numbers 13:2   (Read all of Numbers 13)

"Send some men to explore the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each ancestral tribe send one of its leaders."

Numbers 13:3   (Read all of Numbers 13)

So at the Lord's command Moses sent them out from the Desert of Paran. All of them were leaders of the Israelites.

Numbers 13:4   (Read all of Numbers 13)

These are their names: from the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zakkur;

Numbers 13:5   (Read all of Numbers 13)

from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat son of Hori;

Numbers 13:6   (Read all of Numbers 13)

from the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh;

Numbers 13:7   (Read all of Numbers 13)

from the tribe of Issachar, Igal son of Joseph;

Numbers 13:8   (Read all of Numbers 13)

from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea son of Nun;

Numbers 13:9   (Read all of Numbers 13)

from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti son of Raphu;

Numbers 13:10   (Read all of Numbers 13)

from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel son of Sodi;

Numbers 13:11   (Read all of Numbers 13)

from the tribe of Manasseh (a tribe of Joseph), Gaddi son of Susi;

Numbers 13:12   (Read all of Numbers 13)

from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel son of Gemalli;