Numbers 12:1

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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  • Exod 2:21 : 21 Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter.
  • Exod 34:16 : 16 and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.
  • Lev 21:14 : 14 A widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry: but a virgin of his own people shall he take as a wife.
  • Matt 10:36 : 36 A man's foes will be those of his own household.
  • Matt 12:48 : 48 But he answered him who spoke to him, "Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?"
  • John 7:5 : 5 For even his brothers didn't believe in him.
  • John 15:20 : 20 Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his lord.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.
  • Gal 4:16 : 16 So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?
  • Gen 24:3 : 3 I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.
  • Gen 24:37 : 37 My master made me swear, saying, 'You shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live,
  • Gen 26:34-35 : 34 When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite. 35 They grieved Isaac and Rebekah's spirits.
  • Gen 27:46 : 46 Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?"
  • Gen 28:6-9 : 6 Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan," 7 and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram. 8 Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn't please Isaac, his father. 9 Esau went to Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.
  • Gen 34:14-15 : 14 and said to them, "We can't do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us. 15 Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;
  • Gen 41:45 : 45 Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-paneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
  • Exod 2:16 : 16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 12:2-5
    4 verses
    78%

    2They said, Has Yahweh indeed spoken only with Moses? Hasn't he spoken also with us? Yahweh heard it.

    3Now the man Moses was very humble, above all the men who were on the surface of the earth.

    4Yahweh spoke suddenly to Moses, and to Aaron, and to Miriam, Come out you three to the tent of meeting. They three came out.

    5Yahweh came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forth.

  • 6Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the tent of meeting.

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

  • Num 12:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10The cloud removed from over the Tent; and, behold, Miriam was leprous, as [white as] snow: and Aaron looked at Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.

    11Aaron said to Moses, Oh, my lord, please don't lay sin on us, for that we have done foolishly, and for that we have sinned.

  • 10The son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelite woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp.

  • Num 12:13-15
    3 verses
    71%

    13Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, Heal her, God, I beg you.

    14Yahweh said to Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, shouldn't she be ashamed seven days? let her be shut up outside of the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again.

    15Miriam was shut up outside of the camp seven days: and the people didn't travel until Miriam was brought in again.

  • 14The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Moses, and he said, "What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Also, behold, he comes forth to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.

  • 2The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;

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

  • Num 25:15-16
    2 verses
    69%

    15The name of the Midianite woman who was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head of the people of a fathers' house in Midian.

    16Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • 20Amram took Jochebed his father's sister to himself as wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty-seven years.

  • 11Therefore you and all your company are gathered together against Yahweh: and Aaron, what is he who you murmur against him?

  • Num 20:1-2
    2 verses
    68%

    1The children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.

    2There was no water for the congregation: and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.

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

  • 9Remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam, by the way as you came forth out of Egypt.

  • Num 5:11-12
    2 verses
    67%

    11Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

    12"Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: If any man's wife goes astray, and is unfaithful to him,

  • 26Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

  • Num 27:14-15
    2 verses
    67%

    14because you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the waters before their eyes. (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)

    15Moses spoke to Yahweh, saying,

  • 21Moses said to Aaron, "What did these people do to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?"

  • 24The people murmured against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?"

  • 41But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, You have killed the people of Yahweh.

  • 8with him will I speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly, and not in dark speeches; and the form of Yahweh shall he see: why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?

  • 21Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter.

  • 4For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, And redeemed you out of the house of bondage. I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

  • 10Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • 27Yahweh said to Aaron, "Go into the wilderness to meet Moses." He went, and met him on God's mountain, and kissed him.

  • 9Moses said to Aaron, "Tell all the congregation of the children of Israel, 'Come near before Yahweh, for he has heard your murmurings.'"

  • 15Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.

  • 3The people were thirsty for water there; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?"

  • 3and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, You take too much on you, seeing all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is among them: why then lift yourselves up above the assembly of Yahweh?

  • 27and you murmured in your tents, and said, Because Yahweh hated us, he has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

  • 13Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • 32They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, So that Moses was troubled for their sakes;

  • 11It happened in those days, when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brothers, and looked at their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.