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and Aaron began speaking against Moses because of the Cushite woman he had married (for he had married a Cushite woman). 2 They said, “Has the Lord spoken only through Moses? Hasn’t He also spoken through us?” And the Lord heard this.
3 Now the man Moses was very humble, more humble than any other man on the face of the earth.
4 Suddenly 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 Then the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud, and He stood at the entrance to the tent and summoned Aaron and Miriam. When both of them had come forward, 6 He said, “Listen to My words:
“If there is a prophet among you from the Lord,
I make Myself known to him in visions;
I speak to him in dreams.
7 Not so with My servant Moses;
he is faithful in all My house.
8 With him I speak face to face,
clearly and 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 departed.
10 When the cloud had lifted from above the Tent, Miriam became leprous, as white as snow. Aaron turned toward Miriam and saw that she was leprous, 11 and he said to Moses, “My lord, please do not hold this sin against us we have so foolishly committed. 12 Do not let her be as a stillborn child, whose flesh is half eaten away when it comes from its mother’s wombℝ.”
13 So Moses cried out to the Lord, “Heal her now, O God, I beg You.”
14 But the Lord said to Moses, “If her father had merely spat in her face, would she not have remained in disgrace for seven days? Let her be confined outside the camp for seven days; after that she can be brought back in.” 15 So Miriam was shut out of the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on until she was brought back in.
16 After that, the people set out from Hazeroth and camped in the Wilderness of Paran.