Numbers 12:13

New American Standard Bible

So Moses cried out to the LORD, saying, "God, heal her, please!"

Parallel Translations

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Moses cryed vnto the Lord, saying, O God, I beseech thee, heale her nowe.

George Lamsa Translation
And Moses cried to the LORD, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee.

Hebrew Names Version
Moshe cried to the LORD, saying, Heal her, God, I beg you.

Easy-to-Read Version
So Moses prayed to the Lord , "God, please heal her from this sickness!"

English Standard Version
And Moses cried to the Lord , "O God, please heal her—please."

American Standard Version
And Moses cried unto Jehovah, saying, Heal her, O God, I beseech thee.

Bible in Basic English
And Moses, crying to the Lord, said, Let my prayer come before you, O God, and make her well.

Contemporary English Version
Moses prayed, " Lord God, please heal her."

Complete Jewish Bible
Moshe cried to Adonai , "Oh God, I beg you, please, heal her!"

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying: 'Heal her now, O God, I beseech Thee.'

King James Version (1611)
And Moses cryed vnto the Lord, saying, Heale her now, O God, I beseech thee.

Amplified Bible
So Moses cried out to the LORD, saying, "Heal her please, O God, I plead with You!"

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Moses cried to the Lord, saying, O God, I beseech thee, heal her.

English Revised Version
And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, Heal her, O God, I beseech thee.

Berean Standard Bible
So Moses cried out to the LORD, "O God, please heal her!"

Lexham English Bible
And Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, "God, please heal her!"

Literal Translation
And Moses cried to Jehovah, saying, O God, I pray, please heal her.

New Century Version
So Moses cried out to the Lord , "God, please heal her!"

New English Translation
Then Moses cried to the Lord , "Heal her now, O God."

New King James Version
So Moses cried out to the LORD, saying, "Please heal her, O God, I pray!"

New Living Translation
So Moses cried out to the Lord , "O God, I beg you, please heal her!"

New Life Bible
And Moses cried to the Lord, saying, "O God, heal her, I pray!"

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then Moses made outcry unto Yahweh, saying, - O GOD, I beseech thee grant healing. I beseech thee unto her.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Moses cried to the Lord, saying O God, I beseech thee heal her.

Revised Standard Version
And Moses cried to the LORD, "Heal her, O God, I beseech thee."

Good News Translation
So Moses cried out to the Lord , "O God, heal her!"

King James Version
And Moses cried unto the Lord , saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee.

Darby Translation
And Moses cried to Jehovah, saying, O God, heal her, I beseech thee!

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Moises criede to the Lord, and seide, Lord, Y biseche, heele thou hir.

Young's Literal Translation
And Moses crieth unto Jehovah, saying, `O God, I pray Thee, give, I pray Thee, healing to her.'

World English Bible
Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, Heal her, God, I beg you.

Update Bible Version
And Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, Heal her, O God, I urge you.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Moses cried to the LORD, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Moyses cryed vnto the Lorde, saying: Heale her nowe, O God, I beseche thee.

Christian Standard Bible®
Then Moses cried out to the Lord, “God, please heal her!”

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But Moses cried vnto the LORDE, & sayde: Oh God, heale her.

THE MESSAGE
And Moses prayed to God : Please, God, heal her, please heal her.

New Revised Standard
And Moses cried to the Lord , "O God, please heal her."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Moses cried out to the LORD, saying, "O God, heal her, I pray!"

Legacy Standard Bible
And Moses cried out to Yahweh, saying, "O God, heal her, I pray!"

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ But when the cloud had withdrawn from above the tent, behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. As Aaron turned toward Miriam, behold, she was leprous. ¹¹ Then Aaron said to Moses, "Oh, my lord, I beg you, do not hold us responsible for this sin by which we have turned out to be foolish, and by which we have sinned. ¹² "Oh, do not let her be like a dead person, whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes out of his mother's womb!" ¹³ So Moses cried out to the LORD, saying, "God, heal her, please!"¹⁴ But the LORD said to Moses, "If her father had only spit in her face, would she not be put to shame for seven days? Have her shut outside the camp for seven days, and afterward she may be received again." ¹⁵ So Miriam was shut outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on until Miriam was received again. ¹⁶ Afterward, however, the people moved on from Hazeroth and camped in the wilderness of Paran.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 14:2, Numbers 14:13-20, Numbers 16:41, Numbers 16:46-50, Exodus 32:10-14, 1 Samuel 12:23, 1 Samuel 15:11, Matthew 5:44, Matthew 5:45, Luke 6:28, Luke 23:34, Acts 7:60, Romans 12:21, James 5:15

Reciprocal: Exodus 4:7 - it was turned Deuteronomy 18:18 - like unto 1 Kings 13:6 - besought Job 42:10 - when Psalms 6:2 - heal Psalms 103:3 - healeth 1 John 5:16 - he shall ask

Cross-References

Genesis 11:29
Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah.

Genesis 12:3
And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed."

Genesis 12:5
Abram took his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot, and all their possessions which they had accumulated, and the people which they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan; so they came to the land of Canaan.

Genesis 12:6
Abram passed through the land as far as the site of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. Now the Canaanites were in the land at that time.

Genesis 12:8
Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the LORD and called upon the name of the LORD.

Genesis 12:12
and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, 'This is his wife'; and they will kill me, but they will let you live.

Genesis 12:13
"Please say that you are my sister so that it may go well for me because of you, and that I may live on account of you."

Genesis 20:2
And Abraham said of his wife Sarah, "She is my sister." So Abimelech king of Gerar sent men and took Sarah.

Genesis 20:5
"Did he himself not say to me, 'She is my sister'? And she herself said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this."

Genesis 26:7
When the men of the place asked about his wife, he said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "my wife," thinking, "the men of the place might kill me on account of Rebekah, since she is beautiful."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Moses cried unto the Lord,.... With a loud voice, and with great earnestness and importunity, being heartily affected with the miserable condition Miriam was in:

saying, heal her now, O God, I beseech thee; in the original text it is, "O God now, heal her now"; for the same particle is used at the close as at the beginning of the petition; and the repetition of it shows his earnestness and importunity that she might be healed directly, immediately, without any delay; and Moses uses the word "El", which signifies the strong and mighty God, as expressive of his faith in the power of God, that he was able to heal her; and at the same time suggests that none but he could do it; and so Aben Ezra interprets it,

"thou that hast power in thine hand, now heal her;''

this prayer is a proof of his being of a meek, humble, and forgiving spirit.

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?