1 Dissension of Aaron and Miriam Then Ex. 15:20, 21; Num. 20:1 Miriam and Aaron spoke Num. 11:1 against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married; for Ex. 2:21 he had married an Ethiopian woman.
2 So they said, “Has the Lord indeed spoken only through Num. 16:3 Moses? Ex. 15:20; Mic. 6:4 Has He not spoken through us also?” And the Lord Gen. 29:33; Num. 11:1;2 Kin. 19:4; Is. 37:4; Ezek. 35:12, 13 heard it.
3 (Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all men who were on the face of the earth.)
4 (Ps. 76:9) Suddenly the Lord said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, “Come out, you three, to the tabernacle of meeting!” So the three came out.
5 Ex. 19:9; 34:5; Num. 11:25; 16:19 Then the Lord came down in the pillar of cloud and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam. And they both went forward.
6 Then He said, “Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I , the Lord , make Myself known to him Gen. 46:2;1 Sam. 3:15; Job 33:15; Ezek. 1:1; Dan. 8:2; Luke 1:11; Acts 10:11, 17; 22:17, 18 in a vision; I speak to him Gen. 31:10;1 Kin. 3:5, 15; Matt. 1:20 in a dream.
7 Not so with Josh. 1:1; Ps. 105:26 My servant Moses; Heb. 3:2, 5 He is faithful in all 1 Tim. 1:12 My house.
8 I speak with him Ex. 33:11; Deut. 34:10; Hos. 12:13 face to face, Even (1 Cor. 13:12) plainly, and not in dark sayings; And he sees Ex. 33:19–23 the form of the Lord . Why then 2 Pet. 2:10; Jude 8 were you not afraid To speak against My servant Moses?”
9 So the anger of the Lord was aroused against them, and He departed.
10 And when the cloud departed from above the tabernacle, Deut. 24:9 suddenly Miriam became Ex. 4:6;2 Kin. 5:27; 15:5;2 Chr. 26:19, 20 leprous, as white as snow. Then Aaron turned toward Miriam, and there she was, a leper.
11 So Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord! Please 2 Sam. 19:19; 24:10 do not lay this sin on us, in which we have done foolishly and in which we have sinned.
12 Please Ps. 88:4 do not let her be as one dead, whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb!”
13 So Moses cried out to the Lord , saying, “Please Ps. 103:3 heal her, O God, I pray!”
14 Then the Lord said to Moses, “If her father had but Deut. 25:9; Job 30:10; Is. 50:6 spit in her face, would she not be shamed seven days? Let her be Lev. 13:46; Num. 5:1–4 shut out of the camp seven days, and afterward she may be received again. ”
15 Deut. 24:9;2 Chr. 26:20, 21 So Miriam was shut out of the camp seven days, and the people did not journey till Miriam was brought in again.
16 And afterward the people moved from Num. 11:35; 33:17, 18 Hazeroth and camped in the Wilderness of Paran.