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1And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses about the Cushite wife whom he had taken — because he had taken a Cushite wife. 2And they said, “Has YHWH only just spoken through Moses? Hasn’t He also spoken through us?”

And YHWH heard.

3And the man Moses was very humble, more than every human who was on the face of the earth.145

4And YHWH said suddenly to Moses and to Aaron and to Miriam, “Go out, the three of you, to the Tent of Meeting.” And the three of them went out. 5And YHWH came down in a column of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tent. And He called, “Aaron and Miriam.” And the two of them went out. 6And He said, “Hear my words:

   If there will be a prophet among you,
   I, YHWH, shall be known to him in a vision;
   in a dream I shall speak through him.
7   Not so is my servant Moses;
   in all my house he is faithful.
8   Mouth to mouth I shall speak through him
   and vision and not in enigmas,
   and he will see the form of YHWH.
   And why did you not fear to speak against my servant,
   against Moses?”

9And YHWH’s anger flared against them, and He went. 10And the cloud turned from over the tent; and, here, Miriam was leprous, like snow. And Aaron turned to Miriam, and, here, she was leprous. 11And Aaron said to Moses, “In me, my lord.146 Don’t set a sin on us, which we did foolishly and which we sinned. 12Let her not be like the dead who, when he comes out of his mother’s womb, half of his flesh is eaten up!”

13And Moses cried out to YHWH, saying, “Oh, God, heal her!”

14And YHWH said to Moses, “And if her father had spit in her face, wouldn’t she be humiliated seven days? Let her be closed up seven days outside the camp, and after that let her be gathered back.” 15And Miriam was closed up outside the camp seven days. And the people did not travel until Miriam was gathered back, and after that the people traveled from Hazeroth. And they camped in the Paran wilderness.