Numbers 12:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Now Miriam and Aaron said evil against Moses, because of the Cushite woman to whom he was married, for he had taken a Cushite woman as his wife.

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  • Exod 2:21 : 21 And Moses was happy to go on living with the man; and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses.
  • Exod 34:16 : 16 Or take their daughters for your sons; for when their daughters give worship before their gods, they will make your sons take part with them.
  • Lev 21:14 : 14 A widow, or one whose husband has put her away, or a common woman of loose behaviour, may not be the wife of a priest; but let him take a virgin from among his people.
  • Matt 10:36 : 36 And a man will be hated by those of his house.
  • Matt 12:48 : 48 But he in answer said to him who gave the news, Who is my mother and who are my brothers?
  • John 7:5 : 5 For even his brothers had no belief in him.
  • John 15:20 : 20 Keep in mind the words I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord. If they were cruel to me, they will be cruel to you; if they kept my words, they will keep yours.
  • Gal 4:16 : 16 So then am I no longer your friend, because I give you true words?
  • Gen 24:3 : 3 And take an oath by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not get a wife for my son Isaac from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living;
  • Gen 24:37 : 37 And my master made me take an oath, saying, Do not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living;
  • Gen 26:34-35 : 34 And when Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite: 35 And Isaac and Rebekah had grief of mind because of them.
  • Gen 27:46 : 46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac, My life is a weariness to me because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob takes a wife from among the daughters of Heth, such as these, the women of this land, of what use will my life be to me?
  • Gen 28:6-9 : 6 So when Esau saw that Isaac had given Jacob his blessing, and sent him away to Paddan-aram to get a wife for himself there, blessing him and saying to him, Do not take a wife from among the women of Canaan; 7 And that Jacob had done as his father and mother said and had gone to Paddan-aram; 8 It was clear to Esau that his father had no love for the women of Canaan, 9 So Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath, the daughter of Abraham's son Ishmael, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife in addition to the wives he had.
  • Gen 34:14-15 : 14 And they said, It is not possible for us to give our sister to one who is without circumcision, for that would be a cause of shame to us: 15 But on this condition only will we come to an agreement with you: if every male among you becomes like us and undergoes circumcision;
  • Gen 41:45 : 45 And Pharaoh gave Joseph the name of Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera, the priest of On, to be his wife. So Joseph went through all the land of Egypt.
  • Exod 2:16 : 16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came to get water for their father's flock.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 12:2-5
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    78%

    2 And they said, Have the words of the Lord been given to Moses only? have they not come to us? And the Lord took note of it.

    3 Now the man Moses was more gentle than any other man on earth.

    4 And suddenly the Lord said to Moses and Aaron and Miriam, Come out, you three, to the Tent of meeting. And the three of them went out.

    5 And the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud, taking his place at the door of the Tent, and made Aaron and Miriam come before him.

  • Num 25:6
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    6 Then one of the children of Israel came to his brothers, taking with him a woman of Midian, before the eyes of Moses and all the meeting of the people, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of meeting.

  • Num 26:59
    71%

    59 Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom he had in Egypt: by Amram she had Moses and Aaron and their sister Miriam.

  • Num 12:10-11
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    10 And the cloud was moved from over the Tent; and straight away Miriam became a leper, as white as snow: and Aaron, looking at Miriam, saw that she was a leper.

    11 Then Aaron said to Moses, O my lord, let not our sin be on our heads, for we have done foolishly and are sinners.

  • Lev 24:10
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    10 And a son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel and had a fight with a man of Israel by the tents;

  • Num 12:13-15
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    13 And Moses, crying to the Lord, said, Let my prayer come before you, O God, and make her well.

    14 And the Lord said to Moses, If her father had put a mark of shame on her, would she not be shamed for seven days? Let her be shut up outside the tent-circle for seven days, and after that she may come in again.

    15 So Miriam was shut up outside the tent-circle for seven days: and the people did not go forward on their journey till Miriam had come in again.

  • Exod 4:14
    70%

    14 And the Lord was angry with Moses, and said, Is there not Aaron, your brother, the Levite? To my knowledge he is good at talking. And now he is coming out to you: and when he sees you he will be glad in his heart.

  • Exod 16:2
    69%

    2 And all the children of Israel were crying out against Moses and Aaron in the waste land:

  • 1 Chr 6:3
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    3 And the sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses and Miriam. And the sons of Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

  • Num 25:15-16
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    15 And the woman of Midian who was put to death was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was the head of a family in Midian.

    16 Then the Lord said to Moses,

  • Exod 6:20
    68%

    20 And Amram took Jochebed, his father's sister, as wife; and she gave birth to Aaron and Moses: and the years of Amram's life were a hundred and thirty-seven.

  • Num 16:11
    68%

    11 So you and all your band have come together against the Lord; and Aaron, who is he, that you are crying out against him?

  • Num 20:1-2
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    1 In the first month all the children of Israel came into the waste land of Zin, and put up their tents in Kadesh; there death came to Miriam, and they put her body to rest in the earth.

    2 And there was no water for the people: and they came together against Moses and against Aaron.

  • Exod 18:2
    68%

    2 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,

  • Deut 24:9
    68%

    9 Keep in mind what the Lord your God did to Miriam on the way, when you came out of Egypt.

  • Num 5:11-12
    2 verses
    67%

    11 And the Lord said to Moses,

    12 Say to the children of Israel, If any man's wife does wrong, sinning against him

  • Num 14:26
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    26 Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

  • Num 27:14-15
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    14 Because in the waste land of Zin, when the people were angry, you and he went against my word and did not keep my name holy before their eyes, at the waters. (These are the waters of Meribah in Kadesh in the waste land of Zin.)

    15 Then Moses said to the Lord,

  • Exod 32:21
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    21 And Moses said to Aaron, What did the people do to you that you let this great sin come on them?

  • Exod 15:24
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    24 And the people, crying out against Moses, said, What are we to have for drink?

  • Num 16:41
    66%

    41 But on the day after, all the children of Israel made an outcry against Moses and against Aaron, saying, You have put to death the Lord's people.

  • Num 12:8
    66%

    8 With him I will have talk mouth to mouth, openly and not in dark sayings; and with his eyes he will see the form of the Lord: why then had you no fear of saying evil against my servant Moses?

  • Exod 2:21
    66%

    21 And Moses was happy to go on living with the man; and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses.

  • Mic 6:4
    66%

    4 For I took you up out of the land of Egypt and made you free from the prison-house; I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

  • Exod 6:10
    66%

    10 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Exod 4:27
    66%

    27 And the Lord said to Aaron, Go into the waste land and you will see Moses. So he went and came across Moses at the mountain of God, and gave him a kiss.

  • Exod 16:9
    66%

    9 And Moses said to Aaron, Say to all the people of Israel, Come near before the Lord for he has given ear to your outcry.

  • Exod 2:15
    65%

    15 Now when Pharaoh had news of this, he would have put Moses to death. But Moses went in flight from Pharaoh into the land of Midian: and he took his seat by a water-spring.

  • Exod 17:3
    65%

    3 And the people were in great need of water; and they made an outcry against Moses, and said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to send death on us and our children and our cattle through need of water?

  • Num 16:3
    65%

    3 They came together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, You take overmuch on yourselves, seeing that all the people are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them; why then have you put yourselves in authority over the people of the Lord?

  • Deut 1:27
    65%

    27 And you made an angry outcry in your tents, and said, In his hate for us the Lord has taken us out of the land of Egypt, to give us up into the hands of the Amorites for our destruction.

  • Lev 24:13
    65%

    13 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Ps 106:32
    65%

    32 They made God angry again at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was troubled because of them;

  • Exod 2:11
    65%

    11 Now when Moses had become a man, one day he went out to his people and saw how hard their work was; and he saw an Egyptian giving blows to a Hebrew, one of his people.