Numbers 12:7-16
12:7 My servant
Moses is not like this; he is faithful
in all my house.
12:8 With him I will speak face to face,
openly,
and not in riddles; and he will see the form
of the
Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”
12:9 The anger of the
Lord burned against them, and he departed.
12:10 When
the cloud departed from above the tent, Miriam became
leprous
as snow. Then Aaron looked at
Miriam, and she was leprous!
The Intercession of Moses
12:11 So Aaron said to Moses, “O my lord, please do not hold this sin against us, in which we have acted foolishly and have sinned!
12:12 Do not let her be like a baby born dead, whose flesh is half-consumed when it comes out of its mother’s womb!”
12:13 Then Moses cried to the Lord, “Heal her now, O God.”
12:14 The Lord said to Moses, “If her father had only spit in her face, would she not have been disgraced for seven days? Shut her out from the camp seven days, and afterward she can be brought back in again.”
12:15 So Miriam was shut outside of the camp for seven days, and the people did not journey on until Miriam was brought back in.
12:16 After that the people moved from Hazeroth and camped in the wilderness of Paran.