And, behold, Miriam became leprous— We have here another instance of the expressive beauty of the original being spoiled by the insertion of the italics. Nothing can be more nervous and significative than the passage is without them: the cloud departed; and behold Miriam leprous as snow! As a token of the divine displeasure, after having justified Moses, the Lord instantly withdrew, and struck Miriam with a leprosy, whose whiteness declared it of the most inveterate kind. See Exodus 4:6. 2 Kings 5:27.
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Numbers 12:10
10 And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.