⁵ On the seventh day^(A) the priest is to examine them,^(B) and if he sees that the sore is unchanged and has not spread in the skin, he is to isolate them for another seven days.

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.^(A)”

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

¹⁵ So Miriam was confined outside the camp^(A) for seven days,^(B) and the people did not move on till she was brought back.

²¹ King Uzziah had leprosy until the day he died. He lived in a separate house^[a](A)—leprous, and banned from the temple of the Lord. Jotham his son had charge of the palace and governed the people of the land.