When the cloud went up from above the tent, there stood Miriam. She had a disease that made her skin as white as snow. Aaron turned toward her. He saw that she had a skin disease.So he said to Moses,“ We have committed a very foolish sin. Please don’t hold it against us.Don’t let Miriam be like a baby that was born dead. Don’t let her look like a dead baby whose body is half eaten away.”So Moses cried out to the Lord. He said,“ Please, God, heal her!”The Lord answered Moses. He said,“ Suppose her father had spit in her face. Then she would have been put to shame for seven days. So keep her outside the camp for seven days. After that, you can bring her back.”So Miriam was kept outside the camp for seven days. The people didn’t move on until she was brought back.
Those things happened to them as examples for us. They were written down to warn us. That’s because we are living at the time when God’s work is being completed.
“ Tell the Israelites that certain people must be sent away from the camp. Command them to send away anyone who has a skin disease. They must send away all those who have liquid waste coming from their bodies. And they must send away those who are‘ unclean’ because they have touched a dead body.
There were four men who had a skin disease. They were at the entrance of the gate of Samaria. They said to one another,“ Why should we stay here until we die?
Azariah the chief priest and all the other priests looked at him. They saw that Uzziah had a skin disease on his forehead. So they hurried him out of the temple. Actually, he himself really wanted to leave. He knew that the Lord was making him suffer.King Uzziah had the skin disease until the day he died. He lived in a separate house because he had the disease. And he wasn’t allowed to enter the Lord’ s temple. Uzziah’s son Jotham was in charge of the palace. Jotham ruled over the people of the land.
