1The truth was that Moses/I was very humble. He/I was more humble than anyone else on the earth and Moses/I had not appointed himself/myself to be their leader.
2So immediately Yahweh spoke to Moses/me and to Aaron and Miriam. He said, “All three of you must go and stand at the Sacred Tent.” So they/we did that.
3Then Yahweh descended to the entrance of the tent in a cloud that resembled a huge white pillar. He told Aaron and Miriam to step forward, so they did.
4Then he said to them,
5But that is not the way I speak to my servant Moses.
6So I talk to him face-to-face.
7Yahweh was very angry with Miriam and Aaron, and he left.
8When the cloud rose up from the Sacred Tent, Aaron looked at Miriam, and he saw that her skin was as white as snow, because she now had leprosy.
9Aaron said to Moses/me, “My master, please do not punish us for this sin that we have foolishly committed.
10Do not allow Miriam to be like a baby that is already dead when it is born, whose flesh is already half decayed!”
11So Moses/I cried out to Yahweh, saying, “God, I plead with you to heal her!”
12But Yahweh replied, “If her father had rebuked her for doing something wrong by spitting in her face, she would have been ashamed for seven days. She should be ashamed because of what she has done. So send her outside the camp for seven days. Then she will not have leprosy any more, and she may return to the camp.”
13So they sent her outside the camp for seven days. ◄The people/We► did not move to another location until she returned.
14But after she returned, they/we left Hazeroth and moved north in the Paran Desert and set up their/our tents there.