Numbers 12
1 Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman.
2 They said, “Has the LORD spoken only through Moses? Hasn’t he also spoken through us?” And the LORD heard.
3 Now Moses was a very humble man, more so than anyone else on the face of the earth.
4 Suddenly the LORD said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, “All three of you, come out to the tent of meeting.” And the three of them went out.
5 The LORD came down in a pillar of cloud, stood at the entrance of the tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; the two of them came out.
6 He said, “Listen to my words. If there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, will make myself known to him in a vision; I will speak with him in a dream.
7 That is not so with my servant Moses: he is faithful in all my household.
8 I speak with him face to face, plainly and not in riddles, and he sees the form of the LORD. So why were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?”
9 The LORD’s anger burned against them, and he went away.
10 When the cloud lifted from above the tent, Miriam was leprous, white as snow. Aaron turned toward Miriam, and there she was, leprous.
11 Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord! Please don’t hold against us the sin we committed so foolishly, the sin we committed.
12 Please don’t let her be like a dead child, whose flesh is half consumed when it comes out of its mother’s womb.”
13 Moses cried out to the LORD, “O God, please heal her!”
14 The LORD said to Moses, “If her father had spat in her face, wouldn’t she have been disgraced for seven days? Let her be confined outside the camp for seven days; afterward she may be brought back.”
15 Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not set out until Miriam was brought back.
16 Afterward the people set out from Hazeroth and camped in the wilderness of Paran.
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