Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Numbers 12:1-8 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

1. And Mary and Aaron spoke against Moses, because of his wife the Ethiopian,

2. 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,

3. (For Moses was a man exceeding meek above all men that dwelt upon earth)

4. 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,

5. 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,

6. 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.

7. But it is not so with my servant Moses who is most faithful in all my house:

8. 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?