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.