Numbers Chapter 12
Miriam and Aaron Oppose Moses
1 Miriam and Aaron criticized Moses for the Nubian woman he’d married. 2 “Has Yahveh indeed only spoken through you? Hasn’t he spoken through us too?” Yahveh heard it. ( 3 Moses was the humblest man in the world.) 4 At once, Yahveh told Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, “Come out to the Tent of Meeting.” 5 He came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance to the Tent to call Aaron and Miriam. When they’d come forward, 6 he said,
“Listen to what I’m saying:
if there’s a prophet among you,
I’ll show myself to him in a vision
or speak to him in a dream.
7 Not so with Moses;
he’s faithful in my house.
8 I speak to him directly, clearly,
not in dark sayings;
he sees my form.
Why then weren’t you afraid
to criticize him?”
Num 12:1-8
9 Yahveh’s anger burned against them, and he left. 10 When the cloud withdrew from over the Tent, Miriam had leprosy as white as snow. When Aaron turned and saw it, 11 he told Moses, “Don’t hold that foolish sin against us. 12 Don’t leave her like somebody dead, with flesh half eaten away at birth.”
13 Moses cried out to Yahveh, “God, heal her!”
14 Yahveh said,
“If her father had only spit in her face, wouldn’t she have borne her disgrace for a week? Quarantine her outside the camp for a week. Then she can come back.”
15 So they did; the people didn’t move on till she returned. 16 Then they moved out from Hazeroth to the Wilderness of Paran.
Num 12:9-16