Numbers 12:1
Good News Translation
Moses had married a Cushite woman, and Miriam and Aaron criticized him for it.

New Revised Standard Version
While they were at Hazeroth, Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married (for he had indeed married a Cushite woman);

New American Bible
Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses on the pretext of the Cushite woman he had married; for he had in fact married a Cushite woman.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Mary and Aaron spoke against Moses, because of his wife the Ethiopian,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Miriam

Matthew 10:36 And a man's enemies shall be they of his own household.

Matthew 12:48 But he answering him that told him, said: Who is my mother, and who are my brethren?

John 7:5 For neither did his brethren believe in him.

John 15:20 Remember my word that I said to you: The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they have kept my word, they will keep yours also.

Galatians 4:16 Am I then become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

Ethiopian or Cushite

Exodus 2:16,21 And the priest of Madian had seven daughters, who came to draw water: and when the troughs were filled, desired to water their father's flocks. . . .

married.

Genesis 24:3,37 That I may make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that thou take not a wife for my son, of the daughters of the Chanaanites, among whom I dwell: . . .

Genesis 26:34,35 And Esau being forty years old, married wives, Judith, the daughter of Beeri, the Hethite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon, of the same place. . . .

Genesis 27:46 And Rebecca said to Isaac: I am weary of my life, because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the stock of this land, I choose not to live.

Genesis 28:6-9 And Esau seeing that his father had blessed Jacob, and had sent him into Mesopotamia of Syria, to marry a wife thence; and that after the blessing he had charged him, saying: Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Chanaan: . . .

Genesis 34:14,15 We cannot do what you demand, nor give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; which with us is unlawful and abominable. . . .

Genesis 41:45 And he turned his name, and called him in the Egyptian tongue the saviour of the world. And he gave him to wife Aseneth, the daughter of Putiphare, priest of Heliopolis. Then Joseph went out to the land of Egypt.

Exodus 34:16 Neither shalt thou take of their daughters a wife for thy son, lest after they themselves have committed fornication, they make thy sons also to commit fornication with their gods.

Leviticus 21:14 But a widow or one that is divorced, or defied, or a harlot, he shall not take: but a maid of his own people.

Context
The Murmuring of Miriam and Aaron
1And Mary and Aaron spoke against Moses, because of his wife the Ethiopian,2And 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,…
Cross References
Exodus 2:21
And Moses swore that he would dwell with him. And he took Sephora his daughter to wife:

Numbers 14:22
But yet all the men that have seen my majesty, and the signs that I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now ten times, and have not obeyed my voice,

Numbers 11:35
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