Numbers 12

12 ¹ Now Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman. ² And they said, "Has our Father spoken only through Moses? Has he not also spoken through us?" And our Father heard it.

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

⁴ Suddenly our Father said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, "Come out, you three, to the tent of meeting." So the three of them came out.

⁵ Then our Father came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tent, and he called Aaron and Miriam; and the two of them came forward.

⁶ And he said, "Hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I, your Father, make myself known to him in a vision; I speak to him in a dream. ⁷ Not so with my servant Moses he is faithful in all my house. ⁸ With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly and not in riddles and he sees the form of our Father. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?"

⁹ So the anger of our Father burned against them, and he departed.

¹⁰ When the cloud lifted from above the tent, there was Miriam—leprous, white as snow. Aaron turned toward Miriam, and there she was, leprous. ¹¹ And Aaron said to Moses, "Oh, my lord, please do not hold against us the sin we have so foolishly committed. ¹² Do not let her be like a stillborn child, whose flesh is half eaten away when it comes from its mother's womb."

¹³ So Moses cried out to our Father, "Please, my Father, please heal her!"

¹⁴ But our Father said to Moses, "If her father had merely spit in her face, wouldn't she be disgraced for seven days? Keep her outside the camp for seven days, and after that she may be brought back in."

¹⁵ So Miriam was shut outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not set out until Miriam was brought back in. ¹⁶ After that the people set out from Hazeroth and camped in the Wilderness of Paran.