1 Miriam and Aaron began to speak against Moses on account of the Cushite woman he had married—for he had taken a Cushite wife.
2 "Is it only through Moses that the LORD has spoken?" they said. "Has he not spoken through us too?" And the LORD heard this.
3 Now Moses was a very humble man, humbler than anyone 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 went out.
5 The LORD came down in a pillar of cloud, stood at the entrance of the tent, and called Aaron and Miriam. When both of them stepped forward,
6 he said, "Listen now to my words. When there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, reveal myself to him in a vision and speak with him in a dream.
7 It is not so with my servant Moses; he is faithful in all my house.
8 With him I speak face to face, openly and not in riddles, and he sees the form of the LORD. Why, then, were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?"
9 The LORD's anger burned against them, and he left.
10 As the cloud withdrew from above the tent, there was Miriam, leprous, white as snow. Aaron turned toward Miriam and saw that she was leprous.
11 Aaron said to Moses, "Please, my lord, do not hold against us the sin we so foolishly committed.
12 Please do not let her be like a stillborn child whose flesh is half eaten away when it comes out of its mother's womb."
13 Moses cried out to the LORD, "O God, please heal her, I pray!"
14 The LORD answered Moses, "If her father had merely spat in her face, would she not be in disgrace for seven days? Let her be shut out of the camp for seven days; after that she may be brought back."
15 So Miriam was shut out of the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on until Miriam was brought back.
16 After that the people moved on from Hazeroth and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.