So in my journey through the Bible, I arrived at Numbers 12. Moses and Aaron were brothers. Aaron had married Miriam, who in this chapter seems to have been the cause of some bitterness and envy towards her brother-in-law. These verses makes me cringe. It’s an occasion when you see family judge.
Numbers 12:1-10
Miriam and Aaron began to talk against Moses because of his Cushite wife, for he had married a Cushite. “Has the LORD spoken only through Moses?” they asked. “Hasn’t he also spoken through us?” And the LORD heard this.
Nothing escapes God’s ears. Whether Miriam and Aaron were saying this to others or only to each other we are not told, but the outcome was horrible and very, very public.
Moses was humble and he most probably heard their grumbling and didn’t feel great about it. Moses didn’t act or react.
God did.
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. Then the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud; he stood at the entrance to the tent and summoned Aaron and Miriam. When the two of them stepped forward, he said, “Listen to my words: “When there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, reveal myself to them in visions, I speak to them in dreams. But this is not true of my servant Moses; he is faithful in all my house. With 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?”
The anger of the LORD burned against them, and he left them. When 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 defiling skin disease, When 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 defiling skin disease, Do not let her be like a stillborn infant coming from its mother’s womb with its flesh half eaten away.”
So Moses cried out to the LORD, “Please, God, heal her!”
The 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.”
So Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on till she was brought back.
I have been a Miriam before.
It’s a good lesson to learn.
Do not judge.
Good lesson.
#226 of my 1000 thanks is for TREES! Just imagine the world without them. I am grateful for the abundance of trees.
These are the days!
Keep the smile going!
God bless you!
In His Grip,
Helga xx 🙂