1Then Miriam and Aaron 12:1 criticizedspoke against Moses because of the 12:1 CushiteEthiopian woman whom he had married; for he had married an Ethiopian woman.

2So they said, “Has the Lord indeed spoken only through Moses? Has He not spoken through us also?” And the Lord heard it.

3(Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all men who were on the face of the earth.)

4Suddenly the Lord said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, “Come out, you three, to the tabernacle of meeting!” So the three came out.

5Then the Lord came down in the pillar of cloud and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam. And they both went forward.

6Then He said,

9So the anger of the Lord was aroused against them, and He departed.

10And when the cloud departed from above the tabernacle, suddenly Miriam became leprous, as white as snow. Then Aaron turned toward Miriam, and there she was, a leper.

11So Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord! Please do not lay 12:11 the penalty for thisthis sin on us, in which we have done foolishly and in which we have sinned.

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

13So Moses cried out to the Lord, saying, “Please heal her, O God, I pray!”

14Then the Lord said to Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not be shamed seven days? Let her be shut12:14 exiled out of the camp seven days, and afterward she may be received again.”

15So Miriam was shut out of the camp seven days, and the people did not journey till Miriam was brought in again.

16And afterward the people moved from Hazeroth and camped in the Wilderness of Paran.