Bilangan 12

Bagian: Miryam dan Harun mencela Musa

1 Musa adalah orang yang sangat rendah hati, bahkan paling rendah hati di antara semua orang di dunia. Suatu kali, Miryam dan Harun mencela Musa karena dia menikahi perempuan dari Etiopia. Mereka juga berkata, “TUHAN tidak hanya bicara melalui Musa! TUHAN juga berbicara melalui kami berdua.” TUHAN mendengar ucapan mereka itu. 4 Tiba-tiba TUHAN berbicara kepada Musa, Harun, dan Miryam, “Kalian bertiga, datanglah ke kemah-Ku.” Maka mereka datang ke depan pintu kemah TUHAN. 5 Kemudian TUHAN turun ke pintu kemah-Nya dalam tiang awan lalu memanggil Harun dan Miryam. Mereka berdua pun melangkah ke depan. 6 Lalu TUHAN berkata,
“Dengarkanlah perkataan-Ku ini!
Bila ada nabi-nabi lain di antara kalian,
Aku akan menyatakan diri-Ku atau berbicara dengan mereka lewat penglihatan dan mimpi. 7 Namun, tidak demikian dengan hamba-Ku Musa.
Di antara seluruh umat-Ku, dialah yang paling setia kepada-Ku. 8 Dengan dia Aku berbicara berhadapan muka, secara jelas dan terus terang tanpa menggunakan kiasan.
Dia sudah melihat wujud-Ku.
Seharusnya kalian takut mencela hamba-Ku Musa!” 9 Murka TUHAN berkobar atas Miryam dan Harun. Saat TUHAN pergi 10 dan tiang awan lenyap dari kemah TUHAN, tampaklah kulit Miryam menjadi putih seperti kapas. Dia terkena penyakit kulit menular! Ketika Harun melihat keadaan Miryam, 11 dia memohon kepada Musa, “Tuanku, tolong jangan hukum kami! Kami sudah bertindak bodoh dan berbuat dosa. 12 Jangan biarkan penyakit ini menggerogoti Miryam. Dia tampak seperti bayi yang sudah mati waktu lahir dan dagingnya setengah busuk.” 13 Maka Musa berseru kepada TUHAN, “Ya Allah, aku mohon, tolong sembuhkanlah dia!” 14 Jawab TUHAN kepada Musa, “Andaikan ayahnya meludahi mukanya sebagai teguran keras, tentu dia merasa dipermalukan selama tujuh hari. Miryam harus menanggung aib atas perbuatannya. Kucilkanlah dia di luar perkemahan tujuh hari lamanya. Sesudah itu, dia boleh kembali.” 15 Lalu Miryam dikucilkan di luar perkemahan selama tujuh hari. Orang Israel tidak melanjutkan perjalanan sampai Miryam kembali ke perkemahan. 16 Sesudah itu, umat Israel meninggalkan Hazerot dan berkemah di padang belantara Paran.

1 Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman. 2 They said, “Has Yahweh indeed spoken only with Moses? Hasn’t he spoken also with us?” And Yahweh heard it. 3 Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all the men who were on the surface of the earth. 4 Yahweh spoke suddenly to Moses, to Aaron, and to Miriam, “You three come out to the Tent of Meeting!” The three of them came out. 5 Yahweh came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forward. 6 He said, “Now hear my words. If there is a prophet among you, I, Yahweh, will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream. 7 My servant Moses is not so. He is faithful in all my house. 8 With him, I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see Yahweh’s form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?” 9 Yahweh’s anger burned against them; and he departed. 10 The cloud departed from over the Tent; and behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. Aaron looked at Miriam, and behold, she was leprous. 11 Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord, please don’t count this sin against us, in which we have done foolishly, and in which we have sinned. 12 Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.” 13 Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “Heal her, God, I beg you!” 14 Yahweh 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.” 15 Miriam was shut up outside of the camp seven days, and the people didn’t travel until Miriam was brought in again. 16 Afterward the people traveled from Hazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.