Numbers 12 · Parashat Behaalotecha

And Miryam and Aharon spoke against Moshe because of the Kushite woman whom he had taken, for he had taken a Kushite woman.

And they said, Has the Lord indeed spoken only with Moshe? has he not spoken also with us? And the Lord heard it.

(Now the man Moshe was very meek, more so than all the men that were upon the face of the earth.)

And the Lord spoke suddenly to Moshe, and to Aharon, and to Miryam, Come out you three to the Tent of Meeting. And they three came out.

And the Lord came down in the pillar of cloud, and stood in the door of the tent, and called Aharon and Miryam: and they both came out.

And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the Lord make myself known to him in a vision, and speak to him in a dream.

My servant Moshe is not so, for he is the trusted one in all my house.

With him I speak mouth to mouth, manifestly, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the Lord does he behold: why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moshe?

And the anger of the Lord was inflamed against them; and he departed.

And the cloud was removed from the tent; and, behold, Miryam was snow white, stricken with żara῾at; and Aharon looked upon Miryam, and behold, she was diseased.

And Aharon said to Moshe, Alas, my lord, I pray thee, lay no sin upon us, for we have done foolishly, and we have sinned.

Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.

And Moshe cried to the Lord, saying, Heal her now, O God, I pray thee.

And the Lord said to Moshe, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed for seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again.

And Miryam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people did not journey until Miryam was brought in again.

And afterwards the people removed from Ḥażerot, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.