“When a prophet of the Lord is among you, I reveal myself to him in visions, I speak to him in dreams. But this is not true of my servant Moses, with him I speak face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he see the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”
Numbers 12:6-8

When the cloud had lifted from above the tabernacle, showing that God had departed, Aaron looked over at Miriam, seeing that she was covered in a pasty-white scaly skin, which was leprous. Did he then look at his own skin, saddened that Miriam bore the brunt of God judgment and not him?

“Please my lord, do not hold against us the sin we have so foolishly committed. Do no let her be like a stillborn infant coming from its mothers womb with it flesh half-eaten away”
Numbers 11-12

Aaron cries out to God, and Moses cries out to God for their sister, Moses fervently cries -

“O God, please heal her!”
Numbers 13

Miriam was shut out of the camp for seven days, before the Lord restored her and gave her a clean body. Miriam was humbled before the Lord because she was such a prominent person and a leader of women.

Miriam went on to travel with Moses and Aaron and the Israelites for almost 40 years in the desert. She died just before Aaron near the end of Israel’s wanderings at Kadesh. She did not enter the promised land and was buried in the wilderness.

She became a woman of great courage, faith and firm resolve, who rejoiced in the victories and the hardships in the deserts of Sinai.

Miriam lived among the Israelites throughout their journey. In the wilderness she was the encourager when they lost their faith. She was with them when they built the golden calf and watched three thousand of her people die when they did not wait on the Lord through Moses.

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