Numbers 12:1 Cross References - NSB

¹ Miriam and Aaron criticized Moses because he was married to a Cushite woman from Sudan.

³ »I want you to swear by Jehovah God of heaven and earth that you will not get my son a wife from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living.

³⁷ »I solemnly promised my master I would do what he said. He told me: ‘Do not choose a wife for my son from the women in this land of Canaan.

³⁴ When Esau was forty he married Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite. ³⁵ These two women brought a lot of grief to his parents, Isaac and Rebekah.

⁴⁶ Rebekah said to Isaac: »I cannot stand Hittite women! I would rather die than see Jacob marry one of them.«

⁶ Esau found out that his father Isaac had blessed Jacob and had warned him not to marry any of the Canaanite women. He also learned that Jacob had been sent to find a wife in northern Syria. ⁷ Jacob did as his father and mother said. He went to Paddan-aram. ⁸ It was clear to Esau that his father despised the local Canaanite women. ⁹ So Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath, the daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife in addition to the wives he had.

¹⁴ So they tricked them by saying: »You are not circumcised! It would be a disgrace for us to let you marry Dinah now. ¹⁵ »But we will let you marry her, if you and the other men in your tribe get circumcised.

⁴⁵ Pharaoh named Joseph, Zaphenath-paneah. He gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, as his wife. And Joseph went forth over the land of Egypt.

¹⁶ The priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came to draw water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

²¹ Moses was content to live with the man. He gave Moses his daughter Zipporah.

¹⁶ »You might take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters might commit spiritual immorality (fornication) with their gods and cause your sons also to commit spiritual immorality with their gods.

¹⁴ »He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, a woman who has lost her virginity, or a prostitute. He may only marry a virgin from his own people.

⁴⁸ But he answered: »Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?«

³⁶ »A man’s enemies will be from his own family.

⁵ For his brothers did not express active faith in him.

²⁰ »Remember the word I said to you. A servant is not greater than his master. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed my word, they will obey yours also.

¹⁶ So then have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?