⁴⁵ “Anyone with such a defiling disease must wear torn clothes,^(A) let their hair be unkempt,^[a] cover the lower part of their face^(B) and cry out, ‘Unclean! Unclean!’^(C)

⁴⁶ As long as they have the disease they remain unclean. They must live alone; they must live outside the camp.^(A)

² “Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone who has a defiling skin disease^[a](A) or a discharge^(B) of any kind, or who is ceremonially unclean^(C) because of a dead body.^{(D) 3} Send away male and female alike; send them outside the camp so they will not defile their camp, where I dwell among them.^(E)” ⁴ The Israelites did so; they sent them outside the camp. They did just as the Lord had instructed Moses.

¹⁰ When the cloud lifted from above the tent,^(A) Miriam’s skin was leprous^[a]—it became as white as snow.^(B) Aaron turned toward her and saw that she had a defiling skin disease,^{(C) 11} and he said to Moses, “Please, my lord, I ask you not to hold against us the sin we have so foolishly committed.^{(D) 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!^(E)”

¹⁴ The Lord replied to Moses, “If her father had spit in her face,^(F) would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Confine her outside the camp^(G) for seven days; after that she can be brought back.”