⁴⁵ “Now the leper on whom the sore is, his clothes shall be torn and his head ^(A)bare; and he shall ^(B)cover his mustache, and cry, ^(C)‘Unclean! Unclean!’

⁴⁶ He shall be unclean. All the days he has the sore he shall be unclean. He is unclean, and he shall ^[a]dwell alone; his dwelling shall be ^(A)outside the camp.

² “Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every ^(A)leper, everyone who has a ^(B)discharge, and whoever becomes ^(C)defiled ^[a]by a corpse. ³ You shall put out both male and female; you shall put them outside the camp, that they may not defile their camps ^(D)in the midst of which I dwell.” ⁴ And the children of Israel did so, and put them outside the camp; as the Lord spoke to Moses, so the children of Israel did.

¹⁰ And when the cloud departed from above the tabernacle, ^(A)suddenly Miriam became ^(B)leprous, as white as snow. Then Aaron turned toward Miriam, and there she was, a leper. ¹¹ So Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord! Please ^(C)do not lay ^[a]this sin on us, in which we have done foolishly and in which we have sinned. ¹² Please ^(D)do not let her be as one dead, whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb!”

¹³ So Moses cried out to the Lord, saying, “Please ^(E)heal her, O God, I pray!”

¹⁴ Then the Lord said to Moses, “If her father had but ^(F)spit in her face, would she not be shamed seven days? Let her be ^(G)shut^[b] out of the camp seven days, and afterward she may be received again.”