Numbers 12 – NIV & NEN

New International Version

Numbers 12:1-16

Miriam and Aaron Oppose Moses

1Miriam and Aaron began to talk against Moses because of his Cushite wife, for he had married a Cushite. 2“Has the Lord spoken only through Moses?” they asked. “Hasn’t he also spoken through us?” And the Lord heard this.

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

4At 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. 5Then 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, 6he 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.

7But this is not true of my servant Moses;

he is faithful in all my house.

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?”

9The anger of the Lord burned against them, and he left them.

10When the cloud lifted from above the tent, Miriam’s skin was leprous12:10 The Hebrew for leprous was used for various diseases affecting the skin.—it became as white as snow. Aaron turned toward her and saw that she had a defiling skin disease, 11and he said to Moses, “Please, my lord, I ask you not to hold against us the sin we have so foolishly committed. 12Do not let her be like a stillborn infant coming from its mother’s womb with its flesh half eaten away.”

13So Moses cried out to the Lord, “Please, God, 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 till she was brought back.

16After that, the people left Hazeroth and encamped in the Desert of Paran.

Kiswahili Contemporary Version (Neno: Bibilia Takatifu)

Hesabu 12:1-16

Miriamu Na Aroni Wampinga Mose

112:1 Kut 15:20; 2:21Miriamu na Aroni walianza kuzungumza dhidi ya Mose kwa sababu ya mke wake Mkushi, kwa kuwa alikuwa ameoa Mkushi. 212:2 Hes 16:3; 11:1; Mwa 29:33; Mik 6:4; 2Fal 19:4; Za 94:9; Eze 35:12Waliuliza, “Je, Bwana amesema kupitia Mose peke yake? Je, hajasema kutupitia sisi pia?” Naye Bwana akasikia hili.

312:3 Mt 11:29; 1Tim 6:11; 2Tim 2:25; Za 149:4; 1Pet 3:4(Basi Mose alikuwa mtu mnyenyekevu sana, mnyenyekevu kuliko mtu mwingine yeyote katika uso wa dunia.)

4Ghafula Bwana akawaambia Mose, Aroni na Miriamu, “Njooni katika Hema la Kukutania, ninyi nyote watatu.” Kwa hiyo wote watatu wakaenda. 512:5 Kut 13:21; Hes 11:25; Kut 34:5Kisha Bwana akashuka katika nguzo ya wingu, akasimama kwenye ingilio la Hema, akawaita Aroni na Miriamu. Wakati wote wawili waliposogea mbele, 612:6 1Sam 3:7, 21; Mwa 15:1; 20:3; 46:2; Mt 27:19; Ebr 1:1; 1Fal 3:5; Mwa 46:2; Ay 33:15; Lk 1:11; 1:22; Mt 1:20Bwana akasema, “Sikilizeni maneno yangu:

“Akiwapo nabii wa Bwana miongoni mwenu,

nitajifunua kwake kwa maono,

nitanena naye katika ndoto.

712:7 Kum 34:5; Yos 1:1-2; Za 105:26; Ebr 3:2, 5Lakini sivyo kwa mtumishi wangu Mose;

yeye ni mwaminifu katika nyumba yangu yote.

812:8 Amu 14:12; 1Fal 10:1; Za 17:15; 49:4; 140:13; Mit 1:6; Dan 5:12; Kut 20:4; 24:2; Ay 19:26; Isa 6:1Kwake nitanena naye uso kwa uso,

waziwazi wala si kwa mafumbo;

yeye ataona umbo la Bwana.

Kwa nini basi ninyi hamkuogopa

kuzungumza kinyume cha mtumishi wangu Mose?”

912:9 Kut 4:14; Mwa 17:22Hasira ya Bwana ikawaka dhidi yao, akawaacha.

1012:10 Kut 4:6; 40:2; Kum 24:9; Law 13:11; 2Fal 5:1, 27; 2Nya 16:12; 21:12Wakati hilo wingu liliinuka kutoka juu ya Hema, Miriamu akawa tayari ana ukoma, mweupe kama theluji. Aroni akamgeukia, akaona ana ukoma. 1112:11 2Sam 19:19; 24:10Kisha Aroni akamwambia Mose, “Tafadhali, bwana wangu, usituhesabie dhambi hii ambayo tumeifanya kwa upumbavu. 1212:12 Za 88:4; Efe 2:1-5; Kol 2:13; 1Tim 5:6Usimwache awe kama mtoto mchanga aliyezaliwa akiwa mfu, ambaye nusu ya mwili wake imeharibika hapo atokapo katika tumbo la mama yake.”

1312:13 Kut 15:26; Za 6:2; 147:3; Isa 1:6; 30:26; 53:5; Yer 17:14; Hos 6:1Hivyo Mose akamlilia Bwana akisema, “Ee Mungu, nakuomba umponye!”

1412:14 Kum 25:9; Ay 17:6; 30:9-10; Isa 50:6; Law 13:46; Hes 5:2-3; Ebr 12:9; 2Nya 26:20, 21Bwana akamjibu Mose, “Je, kama baba yake angemtemea usoni, asingeona aibu kwa siku saba? Mfungie nje ya kambi kwa siku saba; baada ya hapo anaweza kurudishwa kambini.” 1512:15 Law 14:8; 13; Kum 24:9Kwa hiyo Miriamu akafungiwa nje ya kambi kwa siku saba, nao watu hawakuendelea na safari mpaka aliporudishwa kambini.

1612:16 Hes 10:12; 11:35; 15:32; Mwa 21:21Baada ya hayo, watu waliondoka Haserothi, wakapiga kambi katika Jangwa la Parani.