Numbers 12

1

Miriam and Aaron began to talk against Moses

because of his Cushite wife, for he had married a Cushite.

2

"Has the LORD spoken only through Moses?" they asked.

"Hasn't he also spoken through us?" And the LORD heard this.

3

(Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than

anyone else on the face of the earth.)

4

At once the LORD said to Moses, Aaron and Miriam,

"Come out to the Tent of Meeting, all three of you."

So the three of them came out.

5

Then the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud; he stood

at the entrance to the Tent and summoned Aaron and Miriam.

When both of them stepped forward,

6

he said, "Listen to my words: "When a prophet of the LORD

is among you, I reveal myself to him in visions, I speak to

him in dreams.

7

But this is not true of my servant Moses; he is faithful in all

my house.

8

With him I speak face to face, clearly not in riddles; he sees

the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to

speak against my servant Moses?"

9

The anger of the LORD burned against them, and he left

them.

10

When the cloud lifted from aove the Tent, there stood Miriam -

leprous, like snow. Aaron turned toward her and saw that

she had leprosy;

11

and he said to Moses, "Please, my lord, do not hold against

us the sin we have so foolishly committed.

12

Do not let her be like a stillborn infant coming from its

mother's womb with its flesh half eaten away."

13

So Moses cried out to the LORD, "O God, please heal her!"

14

The LORD replied to Moses, "If her father had spit in her face,

would she not have been in disgrace for seven days?

Confine her outside the camp for seven days; after that

she can be brought back."

15

So Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days,

and the people did not move on till she was brought back.

16

After that, the peole left Hazeroth and encamped in the Desert of Paran.