03 August 2021, General Week 18 - Tuesday MASS READINGS FIRST READING “Why did you dare to criticize my servant Moses? I speak to him face to face ” Reading the Book of Numbers 12, 1-13

03 August 2021, General Week 18 - Tuesday 

MASS READINGS 

FIRST READING 

“Why did you dare to criticize my servant Moses? I speak to him face to face ” 

Reading the Book of Numbers 12, 1-13 

In those days,

    because Moses had married an Ethiopian woman,

his sister Miriam and his brother Aaron began to criticize him.

    They said,

“Does the Lord speak only through Moses?

Does he not also speak through us? "

The Lord heard.

    - Now, Moses was very humble,

the most humble man that the earth has borne.

    Suddenly the Lord said to Moses, Aaron and Miriam:

“You three come out to go to the Tent of Meeting. "

They went out all three.

    The Lord descended in the pillar of cloud

and stopped at the entrance of the Tent.

He called Aaron and Miriam;

they both came forward, and he said to them:

    “Listen carefully to my words:

When there is a prophet of the Lord among you,

I make myself known to him in a vision,

I speak to him in a dream.

    It is not thus with my servant Moses,

he who, in all my house, is worthy of confidence:

    it is by mouth that I speak to him,

in a clear vision and not in enigmas;

what he is looking at is the very form of the Lord.

Why did you dare to criticize my servant Moses? "

    The anger of the Lord was kindled against them,

and then he went.

    The cloud departed from the tent,

and behold, Miriam was covered with a leprosy

white as snow.

Aaron turned to her, and here she was with a leper.

    He then said to Moses:

"I beg you, my lord,

do not bring down upon us this sin

which we have had the folly to commit.

    May Miriam not be like the stillborn child

whose flesh is half eaten away

when it comes out of its mother's womb! "

    Moses cried to the Lord:

" God, I beg you, heal her! " 

  - Word of the Lord.