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What does Numbers 12:7 mean?
"My servant Moses is not so. He is faithful in all my house."
— Numbers 12:7 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Yahweh spoke suddenly to Moses, to Aaron, and to Miriam, “You three come out to the Tent of Meeting!” The three of them came out.
Yahweh came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forward.
He said, “Now hear my words. If there is a prophet among you, I, Yahweh, will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream.
My servant Moses is not so. He is faithful in all my house.
With him, I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see Yahweh’s form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?”
Yahweh’s anger burned against them; and he departed.
The cloud departed from over the Tent; and behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. Aaron looked at Miriam, and behold, she was leprous.
Explanation
Numbers 12:7 comes in the middle of God's response to a family dispute. Miriam and Aaron, Moses' own siblings, had begun criticizing him—ostensibly over his Cushite wife, but really because they resented that Moses seemed to have exclusive access to God's voice. They asked, "Has the LORD indeed spoken only through Moses? Hasn't he spoken also through us?" In response, God summoned all three to the tent of meeting and spoke directly, drawing a sharp contrast between how he communicates with ordinary prophets and how he communicates with Moses
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