1Then Miriam and Aaron criticized Moses because of the Cushite woman he had married, for he had taken a Cushite wife.[ † ]Exodus 15:20-21Numbers 20:1Numbers 11:1Exodus 2:21 2“Does the Lord speak only through Moses?” they said. “Does He not also speak through us?” And the Lord heard this.[ † ]Numbers 16:3Exodus 15:20Micah 6:4Genesis 29:33Numbers 11:12 Kings 19:4Isaiah 37:4Ezekiel 35:12-13
3Now Moses was a very humble man, more so than any man on the face of the earth.
4And suddenly the Lord said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, “You three, come out to the Tent of Meeting.” So the three went out,[ † ]Psalms 76:9 5and the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud, stood at the entrance to the Tent, and summoned Aaron and Miriam. When both of them had stepped forward,[ † ]Exodus 19:9Exodus 34:5Numbers 11:25Numbers 16:19
10As the cloud lifted from above the Tent, suddenly Miriam became leprous, white as snow. Aaron turned toward her, saw that she was leprous,[ † ]Deuteronomy 24:9Exodus 4:62 Kings 5:272 Kings 15:52 Chronicles 26:19-20 11and said to Moses, “My lord, please do not hold against us this sin we have so foolishly committed.[ † ]2 Samuel 19:192 Samuel 24:10 12Please do not let her be like a stillborn infant whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”[ † ]Psalms 88:4
13So Moses cried out to the Lord, “O God, please heal her!”[ † ]Psalms 103:3
14But the Lord answered Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Let her be confined outside the camp for seven days; after that she may be brought back in.”[ † ]Deuteronomy 25:9Job 30:10Isaiah 50:6Leviticus 13:46Numbers 5:1-4
15So Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on until she was brought in again.[ † ]Deuteronomy 24:92 Chronicles 26:20-21 16After that, the people set out from Hazeroth and camped in the Wilderness of Paran.[ † ]Numbers 11:35Numbers 33:17-18