Numbers 12

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

2They said, “Has Yahweh spoken only through Moses? Has he not spoken through us too?” And Yahweh heard it.

3Now the man Moses was very humble, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.

4At once Yahweh said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, “Come out to the tent of meeting, all three of you.” So the three of them went out.

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

6He said, “Listen to my words. When 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.

8With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly and not in riddles, and he sees the form of Yahweh. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”

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

10When the cloud withdrew from over the tent, there was Miriam, with a serious skin disease, white as snow. Aaron turned toward Miriam and saw that she had a serious skin disease.

11Aaron said to Moses, “Please, my lord, do not hold against us the sin we have so foolishly committed.

12Please do not let her be like a stillborn child, whose flesh is half eaten away when it comes out of its mother’s womb.”

13So Moses cried out to Yahweh, “Please, God, heal her!”

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

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

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