Numbers 12

1Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had taken, for he had taken a Cushite woman.

2And they said, “Has Yahweh indeed spoken only through Moses? Has he not also spoken through us?” And Yahweh heard it.

3The man Moses was very humble, more than any man who was on the face of the earth.

4And Yahweh said suddenly to Moses and to Aaron and to Miriam, “Come out, you three, to the tent of meeting.” And the three of them went out.

5Then Yahweh came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tent, and he called Aaron and Miriam, and both of them came forward.

6And he said, “Hear now my words: if there is a prophet among you, I, Yahweh, make myself known to him in a vision; I speak to him in a dream.”

7Not so with my servant Moses; he is faithful in all my house.

8Mouth to mouth I speak with him, plainly and not in riddles; and he beholds the form of Yahweh. So why were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?

9And Yahweh’s anger burned against them, and he departed.

10And the cloud departed from over the tent, and behold, Miriam was leprous, like snow. Then Aaron turned toward Miriam, and behold, she was leprous.

11And Aaron said to Moses, “Please, my lord, do not lay sin on us, because we have acted foolishly and because we have sinned.”

12Please, do not let her be like one dead, whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.

13So Moses cried out to Yahweh, saying, “O God, please heal her.”

14And Yahweh said to Moses, “If her father had spit in her face, would she not be disgraced for seven days? Let her be shut up outside the camp for seven days, and afterward she may be brought back in.”

15So Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not set out until Miriam was brought back in.

16Afterward the people set out from Hazeroth and camped in the wilderness of Paran.