Miriam and Aaron Oppose Moses

12 Miriamd and Aaron began to talk against Moses because of his Cushite wife,e for he had married a Cushite. 2 “Has the Lord spoken only through Moses?” they asked. “Hasn’t he also spoken through us?”f And the Lord heard this.g

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

4 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. 5 Then the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud;i he stood at the entrance to the tent and summoned Aaron and Miriam. When the two of them stepped forward, 6 he said, “Listen to my words:

“When there is a prophet among you,

I, the Lord, revealj myself to them in visions,k

I speak to them in dreams.l

7 But this is not true of my servant Moses;m

he is faithful in all my house.n

8 With him I speak face to face,

clearly and not in riddles;o

he sees the form of the Lord.p

Why then were you not afraid

to speak against my servant Moses?”q