Go to Your Room - Numbers 12

Brothers and Sisters are always brothers and sisters. Miriam being the oldest girl  and having babysat Moses while he floated up the Nile as a baby was having a tough time with God choosing Moses to be the boss. Exodus 15:20 tells us that she was also a prophetess, which might have contributed to her statement "doesn't God also speak through us?". It seems from this passage that the middle brother Aaron got caught up in her discontent and gossip. Miriam has an issue with the new woman in Moses life. This new wife was an Ethiopian woman and not the wife that we read about earlier in Exodus, the daughter of Jethro. If you take this passage out of biblical times and put it into the context of  your family today, it really loses a lot of it's mystery. Miriam didn't like Moses new wife and didn't like her little brother being the boss of her. Aaron sided with Miriam and they both got in trouble from Dad. Miriam as the instigator was sent to her room (or in this case outside the camp covered in leprosy for 7 days) to think over what she had done. Moses shows his maturity and humility; his trademark characteristics, by going to God and asking for mercy for Miriam. God shows her mercy and after 7 days outside the camp she is made whole again, but she is much more accepting and respectful of God's choice of Moses as leader.

Go to Your Room

TIDBITS FROM NUMBERS 12

God calls Aaron and Miriam out to speak to them. He makes it very clear that He has chosen Moses and that Moses is not like other men. God declares that He speaks to Moses face to face and not in riddles.
When Miriam is sent out of the camp for 7 days as a punishment, the camp waits to move on until she is brought back into the camp whole.

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