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And Mary and Aaron spoke against Moses , because of his wife the Ethiopian,
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And they said : Hath the Lord spoken by Moses only? hath he not also spoken to us in like manner? And when the Lord heard this,
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(For Moses was a man exceeding meek above all men that dwelt upon earth)
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Immediately he spoke to him, and to Aaron and Mary: Come out you three only to the tabernacle of the covenant. And when they were come out,
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The Lord came down in a pillar of the cloud , and stood in the entry of the tabernacle calling to Aaron and Mary. And when they were come,
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He said to them: Hear my words : if there be among you a prophet of the Lord , I will appear to him in a vision, or I will speak to him in a dream .
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But it is not so with my servant Moses who is most faithful in all my house :
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For I speak to him mouth to mouth : and plainly, and not by riddles and figures doth he see the Lord . Why then were you not afraid to speak ill of my servant Moses ?
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And being angry with them he went away:
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The cloud also that was over the tabernacle departed: and behold Mary appeared white as snow with a leprosy. And when Aaron had looked on her, and saw her all covered with leprosy,
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He said to Moses : I beseech thee, my lord , lay not upon us this sin , which we have foolishly committed:
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Let her not be as one dead , and as an abortive that is cast forth from the mother's womb . Lo, now one half of her flesh is consumed with the leprosy.
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And Moses cried to the Lord , saying: O God, I beseech thee heal her.
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And the Lord answered him: If her father had spitten upon her face , ought she not to have been ashamed for seven days at least? Let her be separated seven days without the camp , and after wards she shall be called again.
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Mary therefore was put out of the camp seven days : and the people moved not from that place until Mary was called again.