[1] Now Miriam and Aaron said evil against Moses, because of the Cushite
woman to whom he was married, for he had taken a Cushite woman as his wife.
[2] And they said, Have the words of the Lord been given to Moses only?
have they not come to us? And the Lord took note of it. [3] Now the man
Moses was more gentle than any other man on earth. [4] And suddenly the
Lord said to Moses and Aaron and Miriam, Come out, you three, to the Tent
of meeting. And the three of them went out. [5] And the Lord came down in a
pillar of cloud, taking his place at the door of the Tent, and made Aaron
and Miriam come before him. [6] And he said, Now give ear to my words: if
there is a prophet among you I will give him knowledge of myself in a
vision and will let my words come to him in a dream. [7] My servant Moses
is not so; he is true to me in all my house: [8] With him I will have talk
mouth to mouth, openly and not in dark sayings; and with his eyes he will
see the form of the Lord: why then had you no fear of saying evil against
my servant Moses? [9] And burning with wrath against them, the Lord went
away. [10] And the cloud was moved from over the Tent; and straight away
Miriam became a leper, as white as snow: and Aaron, looking at Miriam, saw
that she was a leper. [11] Then Aaron said to Moses, O my lord, let not our
sin be on our heads, for we have done foolishly and are sinners. [12] Let
her not be as one dead, whose flesh is half wasted when he comes out from
the body of his mother. [13] And Moses, crying to the Lord, said, Let my
prayer come before you, O God, and make her well. [14] And the Lord said to
Moses, If her father had put a mark of shame on her, would she not be
shamed for seven days? Let her be shut up outside the tent-circle for seven
days, and after that she may come in again. [15] So Miriam was shut up
outside the tent-circle for seven days: and the people did not go forward
on their journey till Miriam had come in again. [16] After that, the people
went on from Hazeroth and put up their tents in the waste land of Paran.
