Numbers 12 · Verse 15

Numbers 12:15

And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again.
Numbers 12:15, King James Version

Numbers 12:15 in other translations

BSBSo Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on until she was brought in again.
WEBMiriam was shut up outside of the camp seven days, and the people didn’t travel until Miriam was brought in again.
ASVAnd Miriam was shut up without the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again.
YLTAnd Miriam is shut out at the outside of the camp seven days, and the people hath not journeyed till Miriam is gathered;
DARBYAnd Miriam was shut outside the camp seven days; and the people did not journey till Miriam was received in again.
BBESo Miriam was shut up outside the tent-circle for seven days: and the people did not go forward on their journey till Miriam had come in again.
WebsterAnd Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again.

What does Numbers 12:15 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
15. the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again--Either not to crush her by a sentence of overwhelming severity or not to expose her, being a prophetess, to popular contempt.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 12:10-16

The cloud departed, and Miriam became leprous. When God goes, evil comes: expect no good when God departs. Her foul tongue, as Bishop Hall says, was justly punished with a foul face. Aaron, as priest, was judge of the leprosy. He could not pronounce her leprous without trembling, knowing himself to be equally guilty. But if she was thus punished for speaking against Moses, what will become of those who sin against…

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Numbers 12:15 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַתִּסָּגֵ֥רva.ti.sa.Gerand she was shut upH5462
מִרְיָ֛םmir.YamMiriamH4813
מִח֥וּץmi.Chutzfrom [the] outsideH2351
לַֽמַּחֲנֶ֖הla.ma.cha.Nehof the campH4264
שִׁבְעַ֣תshiv.'AtsevenH7651
יָמִ֑יםya.MimdaysH3117
וְהָעָם֙ve.ha.'Amand the peopleH5971
לֹ֣אlo'notH3808
נָסַ֔עna.Sa'it set outH5265
עַד\־'ad-untilH5704
הֵאָסֵ֖ףhe.'a.Sefwas receivedH622
מִרְיָֽם\׃mir.YamMiriamH4813

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Numbers 12:15

  • Deuteronomy 24:8-9

    Take 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. Remember what the Lord thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt.

  • Micah 6:4

    For 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.

  • Micah 7:8-9

    Rejoice 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. I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.

  • Habakkuk 3:2

    O 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.

  • Lamentations 3:32

    But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

  • Genesis 9:21-23

    And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.

  • Exodus 20:12

    Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

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shut out.
De 24:8,9
and the.
Ge 9:21-23; Ex 20:12
till Miriam.
La 3:32; Mic 6:4; 7:8,9; Hab 3:2

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Context

  • Numbers 12:14

    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.

  • Numbers 12:15

    And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again.

  • Numbers 12:16

    And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.

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Numbers 12:15 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Así María fué echada del real siete días; y el pueblo no pasó adelante hasta que se le reunió María.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et Marie demeura exclue hors du camp sept jours; et le peuple ne partit pas jusqu’à ce que Marie ait été recueillie.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und Mirjam wurde sieben Tage außerhalb des Lagers eingeschlossen; und das Volk brach nicht auf, bis Mirjam wieder aufgenommen war.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Exclusa est itaque Maria extra castra septem diebus: et populus non est motus de loco illo, donec revocata est Maria.