And the LORD said unto Moses, "If her father had spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut out of the host seven days, and after that let her be received in again."

And Miriam was shut out of the host seven days: and the people removed not, till she was brought in again.

And the people chode with Moses and spake, saying, "Would God that we had perished when our brethren perished before the LORD.

"'And see that ye pollute not the land which ye are in, for blood defileth the land. And the land can none otherwise be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of it that shed it.