Miriam and Aaron Oppose Moses

1Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman. 2They said, “Has YHWH indeed spoken only with Moses? Hasn’t he spoken also with us?” And YHWH heard it.

3Now the man Moses was very humble, more than anyone on the face of the earth. 4Suddenly YHWH said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, “Y’all three come out to the Tent of Meeting!”

So the three of them went out. 5YHWH came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forward. 6He said, “Now y’all listen to my words. If there is a prophet among y’all, I, YHWH, will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream. 7Not so with my servant Moses is. He is faithful in all my house. 8With him, I will speak mouth to mouth, clearly, not in riddles; and he will see the form of YHWH. Why then were y’all not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?” 9YHWH’s anger burned against them, and ʜᴇ departed.

10The cloud departed from over the Tent, and Miriam became leprous, as white as snow. Aaron looked at Miriam, and saw that she was leprous.

11Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord, please don’t count this sin against us which we have done foolishly, and in which we have sinned. 12Please don’t let her be like a dead baby, whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”

13Moses cried to YHWH, saying, “Heal her, God, I beg you!”

14YHWH said to Moses, “If her father had only spit-spit in her face, shouldn’t she be ashamed seven days? Let her be confined outside the camp for seven days, and after that she may be brought in again.”

15Miriam was shut up outside of the camp seven days, and the people didn’t travel until Miriam was brought in again. 16Afterward the people traveled from Hazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.