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    face to face I speak to him,(A)
    plainly and not in riddles.
The likeness of the Lord he beholds.

Why, then, do you not fear to speak against my servant Moses? And so the Lord’s wrath flared against them, and he departed.

Miriam’s Punishment. 10 Now the cloud withdrew from the tent, and there was Miriam,(B) stricken with a scaly infection, white as snow![a] When Aaron turned toward Miriam and saw her stricken with snow-white scales,

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  1. 12:10 Stricken with a scaly infection, white as snow: see note on Lv 13:1–14:47. The point of the simile lies either in the flakiness or the whiteness of snow.

With him I speak face to face,
    clearly and not in riddles;(A)
    he sees the form of the Lord.(B)
Why then were you not afraid
    to speak against my servant Moses?”(C)

The anger of the Lord burned against them,(D) and he left them.(E)

10 When the cloud lifted from above the tent,(F) Miriam’s skin was leprous[a]—it became as white as snow.(G) Aaron turned toward her and saw that she had a defiling skin disease,(H)

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  1. Numbers 12:10 The Hebrew for leprous was used for various diseases affecting the skin.