And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.
Hear now my words. A difference of degree is here distinctly expressed in the gifts and authority even of divinely-commissioned prophets Moses having been set over all God's house - i:e., His church and people-was consequently invested with supremacy over Miriam and Aaron also, and privileged beyond all others by direct and clear manifestations of the presence and will of God.