I want you to make a vow in the name of the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that you will not choose a wife for my son from the people here in Canaan.
Numbers 12:1 - Good News Translation (US Version) Moses had married a Cushite woman, and Miriam and Aaron criticized him for it. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition NOW MIRIAM and Aaron talked against Moses [their brother] because of his Cushite wife, for he had married a Cushite woman. American Standard Version (1901) And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman. Common English Bible When they were in Hazeroth, Miriam and Aaron criticized Moses on account of the Cushite woman whom he had married—for he had married a Cushite woman. Catholic Public Domain Version And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses, because of his wife, an Ethiopian, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Mary and Aaron spoke against Moses, because of his wife the Ethiopian, |
I want you to make a vow in the name of the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that you will not choose a wife for my son from the people here in Canaan.
My master made me promise with a vow to obey his command. He said, ‘Do not choose a wife for my son from the young women in the land of Canaan.
Rebecca said to Isaac, “I am sick and tired of Esau's foreign wives. If Jacob also marries one of these Hittites, I might as well die.”
He gave Joseph the Egyptian name Zaphenath Paneah, and he gave him a wife, Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, a priest in the city of Heliopolis. Joseph was thirty years old when he began to serve the king of Egypt. He left the king's court and traveled all over the land.
So Moses decided to live there, and Jethro gave him his daughter Zipporah in marriage,
Your sons might marry those foreign women, who would lead them to be unfaithful to me and to worship their pagan gods.
not a widow or a divorced woman or a woman who has been a prostitute. He shall marry only a virgin from his own clan.
none of these people will live to enter that land. They have seen the dazzling light of my presence and the miracles that I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, but they have tried my patience over and over again and have refused to obey me.
who was married to Levi's daughter Jochebed, who was born in Egypt. She bore Amram two sons, Aaron and Moses, and a daughter, Miriam.
Remember what I told you: ‘Slaves are not greater than their master.’ If people persecuted me, they will persecute you too; if they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours too.