Numbers 12:9

JPS Old Testament

And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and He departed.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and he departed.

King James Version
And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them; and he departed.

Lexham English Bible
And Yahweh became very angry with them, and he went away.

New Century Version
The Lord was very angry with them, and he left.

New English Translation
The anger of the Lord burned against them, and he departed.

Amplified Bible
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Miriam and Aaron, and He departed.

New American Standard Bible
And the anger of the LORD burned against them and He departed.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Thus the Lorde was very angrie with them, and departed.

Legacy Standard Bible
So the anger of Yahweh burned against them, and He went away.

Contemporary English Version
The Lord became angry at Aaron and Miriam. And after the Lord left

Complete Jewish Bible
The anger of Adonai flared up against them, and he left.

Darby Translation
And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against them, and he went away;

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord was very angry with them, and he left them.

English Standard Version
And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them, and he departed.

George Lamsa Translation
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and he departed.

Good News Translation
The Lord was angry with them; and so as he departed

Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord’s anger burned against them, and he left.

Literal Translation
And the anger of Jehovah glowed against them, and He left.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And ye wrath of the LORDE waxed whote ouer them, & he turned him awaye,

American Standard Version
And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against them; and he departed.

Bible in Basic English
And burning with wrath against them, the Lord went away.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the Lord was moued vnto wrath agaynst them, and he went his way.

King James Version (1611)
And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them, and he departed.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the great anger of the Lord was upon them, and he departed.

English Revised Version
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and he departed.

Berean Standard Bible
So the anger of the LORD burned against them, and He departed.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord was wrooth ayens hem, and he wente a wei.

Young's Literal Translation
And the anger of Jehovah burneth against them, and He goeth on,

Update Bible Version
And the anger of Yahweh was kindled against them; and he departed.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and he departed.

World English Bible
The anger of Yahweh was kindled against them; and he departed.

New King James Version
So the anger of the LORD was aroused against them, and He departed.

New Living Translation
The Lord was very angry with them, and he departed.

New Life Bible
The Lord was angry with them, and He left.

New Revised Standard
And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them, and he departed.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the anger of Yahweh kindled upon theme and he departed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And being angry with them he went away:

Revised Standard Version
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them, and he departed;

THE MESSAGE
The anger of God blazed out against them. And then he left.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So the anger of the LORD burned against them and He departed.

Contextual Overview

⁴ And the LORD spoke suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam: 'Come out ye three unto the tent of meeting.' And they three came out. ⁵ And the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forth. ⁶ And He said: 'Hear now My words: if there be a prophet among you, I the LORD do make Myself known unto him in a vision, I do speak with him in a dream. ⁷ My servant Moses is not so; he is trusted in all My house; ⁸ with him do I speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD doth he behold; wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against My servant, against Moses?' ⁹ And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and He departed.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 11:1, Hosea 5:15

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 11:9 - angry

Cross-References

Genesis 12:13
Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister; that it may be well with me for thy sake, and that my soul may live because of thee.'

Genesis 12:14
And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.

Genesis 13:1
And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South.

Genesis 13:3
And he went on his journeys from the South even to Beth-el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Ai;

Genesis 24:62
And Isaac came from the way of Beer-lahai-roi; for he dwelt in the land of the South.

Psalms 105:13
And when they went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them,.... Which might be visible by some outward token, as by lightning from the cloud, or, however, what follows was sufficient to show it:

and he departed; from the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, where he had stood in the pillar of cloud for some time; but as soon as he had given his testimony of Moses, and expressed his displeasure at Aaron and Miriam, he went away directly from them; not staying to hear what they had to say for themselves, which was a plain indication of his anger against them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Miriam, as a prophetess (compare Exodus 15:20-21) no less than as the sister of Moses and Aaron, took the first rank among the women of Israel; and Aaron may be regarded as the ecclesiastical head of the whole nation. But instead of being grateful for these high dignities they challenged the special vocation of Moses and the exclusive authority which God had assigned to him. Miriam was the instigator, from the fact that her name stands conspicuously first Numbers 12:1, and that the punishment Numbers 12:10 fell on her alone. She probably considered herself as supplanted, and that too by a foreigner. Aaron was misled this time by the urgency of his sister, as once before Exodus 32:0 by that of the people.

Numbers 12:1

The Ethiopian woman whom he had married - (Hebrew, “Cushite,” compare Genesis 2:13; Genesis 10:6) It is likely that Zipporah Exodus 2:21 was dead, and that Miriam in consequence expected to have greater influence than ever with Moses. Her disappointment at his second marriage would consequently be very great.

The marriage of Moses with a woman descended from Ham was not prohibited, so long as she was not of the stock of Canaan (compare Exodus 34:11-16); but it would at any time have been offensive to that intense nationality which characterized the Jews. The Christian fathers note in the successive marriage of Moses with a Midianite and an Ethiopian a foreshadowing of the future extension to the Gentiles of God’s covenant and its promises (compare Psalms 45:9 ff; Song of Solomon 1:4 ff); and in the complaining of Miriam and Aaron a type of the discontent of the Jews because of such extension: compare Luke 15:29-30.

Numbers 12:2

Hath the Lord ... - i. e. Is it merely, after all, by Moses that the Lord hath spoken?

Numbers 12:3

The man Moses was very meek - In this and in other passages in which Moses no less unequivocally records his own faults (compare Numbers 20:12 ff; Exodus 4:24 ff; Deuteronomy 1:37), there is the simplicity of one who bare witness of himself, but not to himself (compare Matthew 11:28-29). The words are inserted to explain how it was that Moses took no steps to vindicate himself, and why consequently the Lord so promptly intervened.

Numbers 12:8

Mouth to mouth - i. e. without the intervention of any third person or thing: compare the marginal references.

Even apparently - Moses received the word of God direct from Him and plainly, not through the medium of dream, vision, parable, dark saying, or such like; compare the marginal references.

The similitude of the Lord shall he behold - But, “No man hath seen God at any time,” says John (John 1:18 : compare 1 Timothy 6:16, and especially Exodus 33:20 ff). It was not therefore the Beatific Vision, the unveiled essence of the Deity, which Moses saw on the one hand. Nor was it, on the other hand, a mere emblematic representation (as in Ezekiel 1:26 ff, Daniel 7:9), or an Angel sent as a messenger. It was the Deity Himself manifesting Himself so as to be cognizable to mortal eye. The special footing on which Moses stood as regards God is here laid down in detail, because it at once demonstrates that the supremacy of Moses rested on the distinct appointment of God, and also that Miriam in contravening that supremacy had incurred the penalty proper to sins against the theocracy.

Numbers 12:12

As one dead - leprosy was nothing short of a living death, a poisoning of the springs, a corrupting of all the humors, of life; a dissolution little by little of the whole body, so that one limb after another actually decayed and fell away. Compare the notes at Leviticus 13:0.

Numbers 12:13

Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee - Others render these words: “Oh not so; heal her now, I beseech Thee.”

Numbers 12:14

If her father ... - i. e. If her earthly parent had treated her with contumely (compare Deuteronomy 25:9) she would feel for a time humiliated, how much more when God has visited her thus?