Numbers 12:10-16

10 When the cloud lifted from above the tent, Miriam’s skin was leprous[a] —it became as white as snow. Aaron turned toward her and saw that she had a defiling skin disease,
11 and he said to Moses, “Please, my lord, I ask you not to hold against us the sin we have so foolishly committed.
12 Do not let her be like a stillborn infant coming from its mother’s womb with its flesh half eaten away.”
13 So Moses cried out to the LORD, “Please, God, heal her!”
14 The LORD replied to Moses, “If her father had spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Confine her outside the camp for seven days; after that she can be brought back.”
15 So Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on till she was brought back.
16 After that, the people left Hazeroth and encamped in the Desert of Paran.

Cross References 11

  • 1. Exodus 40:2
  • 2. S Exodus 4:6; Deuteronomy 24:9
  • 3. S Leviticus 13:11; 2 Kings 5:1,27; 2 Chronicles 16:12; 2 Chronicles 21:12-15; 2 Chronicles 26:19
  • 4. 2 Samuel 19:19; 2 Samuel 24:10
  • 5. Exodus 15:26; Psalms 6:2; Psalms 147:3; Isaiah 1:6; Isaiah 30:26; Isaiah 53:5; Jeremiah 17:14; Hosea 6:1
  • 6. Deuteronomy 25:9; Job 17:6; Job 30:9-10; Isaiah 50:6
  • 7. S Leviticus 13:46; Numbers 5:2-3
  • 8. S Leviticus 14:8
  • 9. S Leviticus 13:4
  • 10. Numbers 11:35
  • 11. Genesis 21:21; Numbers 10:12; Numbers 15:32

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. The Hebrew for "leprous" was used for various diseases affecting the skin.
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