Numbers 12:1

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Miriam and Aaron Oppose Moses Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman he had married(for he had married an Ethiopian 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 you then take his daughters for your sons, and when his daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will make your sons prostitute themselves to their gods as well.
  • Lev 21:14 : 14 He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one profaned by prostitution; he may only take a virgin from his people as a wife.
  • Matt 10:36 : 36 and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household.
  • Matt 12:48 : 48 To the one who had said this, Jesus replied,“Who is my mother and who are my brothers?”
  • John 7:5 : 5 (For not even his own brothers believed in him.)
  • John 15:20 : 20 Remember what I told you,‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed my word, they will obey yours too.
  • Gal 4:16 : 16 So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?
  • Gen 24:3 : 3 so that I may make you solemnly promise by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth: You must not acquire 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. He said,‘You must not acquire a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living,
  • Gen 26:34-35 : 34 When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, as well as Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite. 35 They caused Isaac and Rebekah great anxiety.
  • Gen 27:46 : 46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac,“I am deeply depressed because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob were to marry one of these daughters of Heth who live in this land, I would want to die!”
  • Gen 28:6-9 : 6 Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him off to Paddan Aram to find a wife there. As he blessed him, Isaac commanded him,“You must not marry a Canaanite woman.” 7 Jacob obeyed his father and mother and left for Paddan Aram. 8 Then Esau realized that the Canaanite women were displeasing to his father Isaac. 9 So Esau went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael, along with the wives he already had.
  • Gen 34:14-15 : 14 They said to them,“We cannot give our sister to a man who is not circumcised, for it would be a disgrace to us. 15 We will give you our consent on this one condition: You must become like us by circumcising all your males.
  • Gen 41:45 : 45 Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-Paneah. He also gave him Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, to be his wife. So Joseph took charge of all the land of Egypt.
  • Exod 2:16 : 16 Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and began to draw water and fill the troughs in order to water their father’s flock.

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  • Num 12:2-5
    4 verses
    78%

    2They said,“Has the LORD spoken only through Moses? Has he not also spoken through us?” And the LORD heard it.

    3(Now the man Moses was very humble, more so than any man on the face of the earth.)

    4The Response of the Lord The LORD spoke immediately to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam:“The three of you come to the tent of meeting.” So the three of them went.

    5And the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tent; he then called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forward.

  • Num 25:6
    72%

    6Just then one of the Israelites came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the plain view of Moses and of the whole community of the Israelites, while they were weeping at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

  • Num 26:59
    71%

    59Now the name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt. And to Amram she bore Aaron, Moses, and Miriam their sister.

  • Num 12:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10After the cloud had departed from above the tent, there was Miriam, leprous like snow. Then Aaron turned toward Miriam, and realized that she was leprous!

    11The Intercession of Moses So Aaron said to Moses,“O my lord, please do not hold this sin against us, in which we have acted foolishly and have sinned!

  • Lev 24:10
    71%

    10A Case of Blaspheming the Name Now an Israelite woman’s son whose father was an Egyptian went out among the Israelites, and the Israelite woman’s son and an Israelite man had a fight in the camp.

  • Num 12:13-15
    3 verses
    71%

    13Then Moses cried to the LORD,“Heal her now, O God.”

    14The LORD said to Moses,“If her father had only spit in her face, would she not have been disgraced for seven days? Shut her out from the camp seven days, and afterward she can be brought back in again.”

    15So Miriam was shut outside of the camp for seven days, and the people did not journey on until Miriam was brought back in.

  • Exod 4:14
    70%

    14Then the LORD became angry with Moses, and he said,“What about your brother Aaron the Levite? I know that he can speak very well. Moreover, he is coming to meet you, and when he sees you he will be glad in his heart.

  • Exod 16:2
    69%

    2The entire company of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

  • 1 Chr 6:3
    69%

    3The children of Amram:Aaron, Moses, and Miriam.The sons of Aaron:Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

  • Num 25:15-16
    2 verses
    69%

    15The name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi daughter of Zur. He was a leader over the people of a clan of Midian.

    16Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Exod 6:20
    68%

    20Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses.(The length of Amram’s life was 137 years.)

  • Num 16:11
    68%

    11Therefore you and all your company have assembled together against the LORD! And Aaron– what is he that you murmur against him?”

  • Num 20:1-2
    2 verses
    68%

    1The Israelites Complain Again Then the entire community of Israel entered the wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh. Miriam died and was buried there.

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

  • Exod 18:2
    68%

    2Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took Moses’ wife Zipporah after he had sent her back,

  • Deut 24:9
    68%

    9Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam along the way after you left Egypt.

  • Num 5:11-12
    2 verses
    67%

    11The Jealousy Ordeal The LORD spoke to Moses:

    12“Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘If any man’s wife goes astray and behaves unfaithfully toward him,

  • Num 14:26
    67%

    26The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:

  • Num 27:14-15
    2 verses
    67%

    14For in the wilderness of Zin when the community rebelled against me, you rebelled against my command to show me as holy before their eyes over the water– the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.”

    15Then Moses spoke to the LORD:

  • Exod 32:21
    66%

    21Moses said to Aaron,“What did this people do to you, that you have brought on them so great a sin?”

  • Exod 15:24
    66%

    24So the people murmured against Moses, saying,“What can we drink?”

  • Num 16:41
    66%

    41But on the next day the whole community of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying,“You have killed the LORD’s people!”

  • Num 12:8
    66%

    8With him I will speak face to face, openly, and not in riddles; and he will see the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”

  • Exod 2:21
    66%

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

  • Mic 6:4
    66%

    4In fact, I brought you up from the land of Egypt, I delivered you from that place of slavery. I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam to lead you.

  • Exod 6:10
    66%

    10Then the LORD said to Moses,

  • Exod 4:27
    66%

    27The LORD said to Aaron,“Go to the wilderness to meet Moses. So he went and met him at the mountain of God and greeted him with a kiss.

  • Exod 16:9
    66%

    9Then Moses said to Aaron,“Tell the whole community of the Israelites,‘Come before the LORD, because he has heard your murmurings.’”

  • Exod 2:15
    65%

    15When Pharaoh heard about this event, he sought to kill Moses. So Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, and he settled by a certain well.

  • Exod 17:3
    65%

    3But the people were very thirsty there for water, and they murmured against Moses and said,“Why in the world did you bring us up from Egypt– to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?”

  • Num 16:3
    65%

    3And they assembled against Moses and Aaron, saying to them,“You take too much upon yourselves, seeing that the whole community is holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the community of the LORD.

  • Deut 1:27
    65%

    27You complained among yourselves privately and said,“Because the LORD hates us he brought us from Egypt to deliver us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us!

  • Lev 24:13
    65%

    13Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Ps 106:32
    65%

    32They made him angry by the waters of Meribah, and Moses suffered because of them,

  • Exod 2:11
    65%

    11The Presumption of the Deliverer In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and observed their hard labor, and he saw an Egyptian man attacking a Hebrew man, one of his own people.