KJV King James Version
And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in [again].
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Numbers 12:15
And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in [again].
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
So Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on until she was brought in again.
WEB World English Bible
Miriam was shut up outside of the camp seven days, and the people didn’t travel until Miriam was brought in again.
ASV American Standard Version
And Miriam was shut up without the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And Miriam is shut out at the outside of the camp seven days, and the people hath not journeyed till Miriam is gathered;
Surrounding context — Numbers 12
12 Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother’s womb.
13 And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee.
14 And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in [again].
15 And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in [again].
16 And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וַתִּסָּגֵ֥רH5462 · sa.garto shutמִרְיָ֛םH4813 · mir.yamMiriamמִח֥וּץH2351 · chutsoutsideלַֽמַּחֲנֶ֖הH4264 · ma.cha.nehcampשִׁבְעַ֣תH7651 · she.vasevenיָמִ֑יםH3117 · yomdayוְהָעָם֙H5971 · ampeopleלֹ֣אH3808 · lonotנָסַ֔עH5265 · na.sato set outעַד־H5704 · adtillהֵאָסֵ֖ףH622 · a.saphto gatherמִרְיָֽם׃H4813 · mir.yamMiriam
Cross-references
Micah 7:8-9Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD [shall be] a light unto me.Habakkuk 3:2O LORD, I have heard thy speech, [and] was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.Micah 6:4For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.Deuteronomy 24:8-9Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, [so] ye shall observe to do.Lamentations 3:32But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.Exodus 20:12Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.Genesis 9:21-23And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
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