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Numbers 12 Bible study: Faithful in all my house
Miriam and Aaron gave the Cushite woman as their reason (12:1), but the LORD answered what they asked (12:2): prophets hear him in visions and dreams, but with his servant Moses he speaks "mouth to mouth" (12:6-8). And Moses never answered for himself. His only words were a prayer for Miriam (12:13).
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“Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all the men who were on the surface of the earth.”
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“The words "leprous, as white as snow" are used of Moses' hand in Exodus 4 as well as of Miriam in Numbers 12.”
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What's really going on
What they said, and what the LORD answered
The chapter gives a reason first: "Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married" (12:1). Then it gives their words, and they are about something else: "Has the LORD indeed spoken only with Moses? Hasn’t he spoken also with us?" (12:2). "And the LORD heard it" (12:2). When the LORD answers, he says nothing about the woman. He speaks about how he speaks: to a prophet "in a vision" and "in a dream" (12:6), and to Moses "mouth to mouth" (12:8).
Where it leads to Jesus
Faithful as a servant, faithful as a Son
Numbers 12:7leads toHebrews 3:5-6
The LORD says, "My servant Moses is not so. He is faithful in all my house" (12:7). Hebrews uses the same words of Moses and sets Jesus beside him: "Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken, but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house" (Hebrews 3:5-6). The LORD says "my house"; Hebrews says "his house". Before this, Hebrews calls Jesus the one "who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also Moses was in all his house" (Hebrews 3:2). Hebrews doesn't name Numbers, but in the WEB these are the only two places that say "faithful in all" someone's house.
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- "My servant Moses is not so"
- Moses says nothing for himself
- Seven days, and a camp that waited
- "Faithful in all his house"
- "Leprous, as white as snow"
- "You saw no form", and "he shall see the LORD’s form"
- 12 questions as you read
- 11 more Hebrew words
- A short check at the end
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The Hebrew word behind it
עָנָוanavsay a-NAV
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "poor, afflicted, humble, meek". Strong's: "depressed (figuratively), in mind (gentle) or circumstances (needy, especially saintly)". "Now the man Moses was very humble" (12:3). This is the word's only use in the five books of Moses, Genesis to Deuteronomy. The Psalms use it most: "But the humble shall inherit the land" (Psalm 37:11). Proverbs says, "he gives grace to the humble" (Proverbs 3:34), and James quotes it: "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble" (James 4:6), as Peter does (1 Peter 5:5).
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Numbers 12 Bible study questions
- 1Miriam and Aaron gave one reason (12:1), but their words were about something else (12:2). When have you found that a complaint, yours or someone else's, was really about something underneath it?
- 2Moses didn't answer for himself; the LORD did (12:3-8). What makes it hard for you to let God speak up for you instead of defending yourself?
- 3Moses prayed for Miriam, and the whole camp waited seven days for her (12:13-15). Who could you pray for, or wait for, this week?
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