¹Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had taken, for he had taken a Cushite woman.

²They said, Has Yahweh spoken only by Moses? Has he not also spoken by us? And Yahweh heard.

³Now the man Moses was humble very, more than all the men who were on the face of the ground.

⁴Suddenly Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron and to Miriam, Come out, the three of you, to the tent of meeting. And they went out, the three of them.

⁵Yahweh came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tent, and called Aaron and Miriam, and they went out, both of them.

⁶He said, Hear my words, please: if your prophet is Yahweh's, I make myself known to him in a vision; in a dream I speak with him.

⁷Not so with my servant Moses: in all my house he is faithful.

⁸Mouth to mouth I speak with him, in sight and not in riddles, and he looks at the form of Yahweh. So why were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?

⁹The anger of Yahweh burned against them, and he went.

¹⁰And the cloud removed from over the tent, and look, Miriam was leprous like snow; Aaron turned to Miriam, and look, she was leprous.

¹¹Aaron said to Moses, Pardon me, my lord: do not, please, set on us the sin in which we acted foolishly and in which we have sinned.

¹²Do not, please, let her be like the dead, who, when he comes out of the womb of his mother, has half his flesh eaten.

¹³Moses cried out to Yahweh, saying, O God, please, heal her, please.

¹⁴Yahweh said to Moses, If her father had surely spat in her face, would she not be put to shame seven days? She shall be shut up seven days outside the camp, and after that she shall be gathered in.

¹⁵And Miriam was shut up outside the camp seven days, and the people did not set out until Miriam was gathered in.

¹⁶And after that the people set out from Hazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.