When the cloud departed from above the tent, Miriam became leprous as snow. Then Aaron looked at Miriam, and she was leprous!So Aaron said to Moses,“ O my lord, please do not hold this sin against us, in which we have acted foolishly and have sinned!Do not let her be like a baby born dead, whose flesh is half-consumed when it comes out of its mother’s womb!”Then Moses cried to the LORD,“ Heal her now, O God.”The LORD said to Moses,“ If her father had only spit in her face, would she not have been disgraced for seven days? Shut her out from the camp seven days, and afterward she can be brought back in again.”So Miriam was shut outside of the camp for seven days, and the people did not journey on until Miriam was brought back in.
Now four men with a skin disease were sitting at the entrance of the city gate. They said to one another,“ Why are we just sitting here waiting to die?
When Azariah the high priest and the other priests looked at him, there was a skin disease on his forehead. They hurried him out of there; even the king himself wanted to leave quickly because the LORD had afflicted him.King Uzziah suffered from a skin disease until the day he died. He lived in separate quarters, afflicted by a skin disease and banned from the LORD’s temple. His son Jotham was in charge of the palace and ruled over the people of the land.
