Numbers 12
1 [Moses’/My older sister] Miriam and [his/my older brother] Aaron were saying this: “Is Moses the only one to whom Yahweh has spoken messages to tell to us [RHQ]? Does Yahweh not speak messages to us two also?” [They told people that] they were saying that because Moses/I had married a woman who was a descendant of the Cush people-group, [but they were really saying that because they (were jealous/did not want Moses/me to be the only leader of the Israeli people)]. But Yahweh heard what they were saying.
Y habló María y Aarón contra Moisés por causa de la mujer Etiopisa que había tomado; porque él había tomado mujer Etiopisa.
Y dijeron: ¿Solamente por Moisés ha hablado Jehová? ¿No ha hablado también por nosotros? Y oyó Jehová.
3 [The truth was that] Moses/I was very humble. He/I was more humble than anyone else on the earth [and Moses/I had not appointed himself/myself to be their leader].
Y aquel varón Moisés era muy manso, más que todos los hombres, que eran sobre la tierra.
4 So immediately Yahweh spoke to Moses/me and to Aaron and Miriam. He said, “All three of you must go and stand at the Sacred Tent.” So they/we did that.
Y luego dijo Jehová a Moisés y a Aarón, y a María: Salíd vosotros tres al tabernáculo del testimonio. Y salieron ellos tres.
5 Then Yahweh descended to the entrance of the tent in a cloud [that resembled a huge white] pillar. He told Aaron and Miriam to step forward, so they did.
Entonces Jehová descendió en la columna de la nube, y púsose a la puerta del tabernáculo, y llamó a Aarón y a María, y salieron ellos ambos.
6 Then he said to them, “Listen to me! When a prophet is among you, I [usually] reveal myself to him by allowing him to see visions, and I speak to him in dreams.
Y él les dijo: Oíd ahora mis palabras: Si tuviereis profeta de Jehová, yo le apareceré en visión, en sueños hablaré con él.
7 But that is not the way I speak to my servant Moses. I trust that he will lead my people [well].
Mi siervo Moisés no es así: en toda mi casa es fiel.
8 So I talk to him face-to-face. I speak to him (clearly/using words that he will understand easily), not using parables. He has even seen what I look like. So you should be afraid to criticize my servant Moses!”
Boca a boca hablaré con él, y de vista: y no por figuras o semejanza verá a Jehová: ¿por qué pues no hubisteis temor de hablar contra mi siervo Moisés?
9 Yahweh was very angry with Miriam and Aaron, and he left.
Entonces el furor de Jehová se encendió en ellos y se fue;
10 When the cloud rose up from the Sacred Tent, Aaron looked at Miriam, and he saw that her skin was [as white] as snow, because she now had leprosy.
Y la nube se apartó del tabernáculo: y he aquí que María era leprosa como la nieve: Y miró Aarón a María, y he aquí que estaba leprosa.
11 Aaron said to Moses/me, “My master, please do not punish us for this sin that we have foolishly committed.
Y dijo Aarón a Moisés: Ay señor mío, no pongas ahora sobre nosotros pecado; porque locamente lo hemos hecho, y hemos pecado.
12 Do not allow Miriam to be like a baby that is already dead when it is born, whose flesh is already half decayed!”
No sea ella ahora como el que sale muerto del vientre de su madre consumida la mitad de su carne.
13 So Moses/I cried out to Yahweh, saying, “God, I plead with you to heal her!”
Entonces Moisés clamó a Jehová, diciendo: Ruégote, oh Dios, que la sanes ahora.
14 But Yahweh replied, “If her father had [rebuked her for doing something wrong by] spitting in her face, she would have been ashamed for seven days. [She should be ashamed because of what she has done]. So send her outside the camp for seven days. Then [she will not have leprosy any more, and] she may return to the camp.”
Jehová respondió a Moisés: ¿Pues si su padre escupiendo hubiera escupido en su cara, no se avergonzaría por siete días? sea echada fuera del real por siete días; y después se juntará.
15 So they sent her outside the camp for seven days. (The people/We) did not move [to another location] until she returned.
Así María fue echada del real siete días, y el pueblo no pasó a delante hasta que María se juntó.
16 But after [she returned], they/we left Hazeroth and moved [north] in the Paran Desert and set up their/our tents there.
Y después movió el pueblo de Jaserot, y asentaron el campo en el desierto de Farán.
