Numbers 12:1

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Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman.

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  • Exod 2:21 : 21 Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.
  • Exod 34:16 : 16 And when you take some of their daughters as wives for your sons, their daughters will lead your sons to prostitute themselves to their gods.
  • Lev 21:14 : 14 He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute. He may only marry a virgin from among his own people.
  • Matt 10:36 : 36 A person's enemies will be those of his own household.
  • Matt 12:48 : 48 But Jesus replied to the one who told Him, 'Who is My mother, and who are My brothers?'
  • John 7:5 : 5 For even His brothers did not believe in Him.
  • John 15:20 : 20 Remember the word I spoke to you: A servant is not greater than his master. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
  • Gal 4:16 : 16 So now, have I become your enemy because I am telling you the truth?
  • Gen 24:3 : 3 I want you to swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not choose a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living.
  • Gen 24:37 : 37 My master made me swear an oath, saying, 'You must not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I live.
  • Gen 26:34-35 : 34 When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite. 35 They were a source of grief to Isaac and Rebekah.
  • Gen 27:46 : 46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac, 'I am disgusted with my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these women from the land, what good is my life to me?'
  • Gen 28:6-9 : 6 Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-Aram to take a wife from there, and that when he blessed him, he commanded him, 'You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.' 7 Jacob obeyed his father and his mother and went to Paddan-Aram. 8 Esau realized that the daughters of Canaan were displeasing to Isaac his father. 9 So Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth, as an additional wife to his existing wives.
  • Gen 34:14-15 : 14 They said to them, "We cannot do this thing—to give our sister to a man who is uncircumcised, for that would be a disgrace to us. 15 However, we will agree to you on one condition: if you become like us by every male among you being circumcised.
  • Gen 41:45 : 45 Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-Paneah and gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, to be his wife. Joseph traveled throughout the land of Egypt.
  • Exod 2:16 : 16 Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father's flock.

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  • Num 12:2-5
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    78%

    2They said, 'Is it only through Moses that the LORD has spoken? Hasn't He also spoken through us?' And the LORD heard this.

    3Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.

    4Suddenly, the LORD said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, 'Come out, all three of you, to the tent of meeting.' So the three of them went out.

    5Then the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud. He stood at the entrance to the tent and called Aaron and Miriam. When both of them stepped forward,

  • Num 25:6
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    6Then an Israelite man brought a Midianite woman into his family, in the sight of Moses and the whole assembly of Israel, while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

  • Num 26:59
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    59The name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, a daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt. Jochebed bore to Amram: Aaron, Moses, and their sister Miriam.

  • Num 12:10-11
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    10When 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 skin disease.

    11And he said to Moses, 'Please, my lord, do not hold this sin against us. We acted foolishly and sinned.

  • Lev 24:10
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    10Now the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the Israelites, and a fight broke out in the camp between him and a man of Israel.

  • Num 12:13-15
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    13So Moses cried out to the LORD, 'O God, please heal her!'

    14The 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.'

    15So Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on until she was brought back.

  • Exod 4:14
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    14Then the LORD's anger burned against Moses, and He said, 'What about your brother, Aaron the Levite? I know he can speak well. Even now he is on his way to meet you, and he will be glad to see you.'

  • Exod 16:2
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    2The entire assembly of the Israelites complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

  • 1 Chr 6:3
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    3The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

  • Num 25:15-16
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    15And the name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi daughter of Zur, a tribal chief of a family in Midian.

    16The LORD said to Moses,

  • Exod 6:20
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    20Amram married his father's sister Jochebed, who bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years.

  • Num 16:11
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    11Therefore, it is against the Lord that you and all your followers have gathered. Who is Aaron that you should grumble against him?"

  • Num 20:1-2
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    68%

    1In the first month, the entire community of the Israelites came to the wilderness of Zin, and the people stayed at Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.

    2There was no water for the community, so they gathered together against Moses and Aaron.

  • Exod 18:2
    68%

    2Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after she had been sent away,

  • Deut 24:9
    68%

    9Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam on your journey out of Egypt.

  • Num 5:11-12
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    11The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

    12Speak to the Israelites: If a man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him,

  • Num 14:26
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    26Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

  • Num 27:14-15
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    14This is because you rebelled against my command in the Wilderness of Zin, during the assembly’s strife, when you failed to uphold my holiness before their eyes at the waters. These are the waters of Meribah at Kadesh, in the Wilderness of Zin.

    15Moses spoke to the LORD, saying:

  • Exod 32:21
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    21Then Moses said to Aaron, "What did these people do to you that you led them into such a great sin?"

  • Exod 15:24
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    24So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, 'What are we to drink?'

  • Num 12:8
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    8With 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?'

  • Exod 2:21
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    21Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.

  • Mic 6:4
    66%

    4For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery; I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam ahead of you.

  • Exod 6:10
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    10Then the LORD said to Moses,

  • Exod 4:27
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    27The LORD said to Aaron, 'Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.' So he went and met him at the mountain of God and kissed him.

  • Exod 16:9
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    9Then Moses said to Aaron, "Tell the entire assembly of the Israelites, 'Come before the LORD, for He has heard your complaints.'"

  • Exod 2:15
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    15When Pharaoh heard about this, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in the land of Midian, where he sat down by a well.

  • Exod 17:3
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    3But the people were very thirsty for water there, and they complained against Moses, saying, "Why did you bring us out of Egypt to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?"

  • Num 16:3
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    3They gathered against Moses and Aaron and said to them, "You have taken too much upon yourselves! The whole community is holy, each one of them, and the Lord is among them. Why then do you set yourselves above the assembly of the Lord?"

  • Deut 1:27
    65%

    27You grumbled in your tents and said, 'Because the LORD hates us, He brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us.'

  • Lev 24:13
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    13Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

  • Ps 106:32
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    32By the waters of Meribah, they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them;

  • Exod 2:11
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    11One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and saw their forced labor. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his people.