Numbers 12:10, Black and White

And when the cloud departed from above the tabernacle, suddenly Miriambecameleprous, aswhite assnow.

//Maybe you’ve heard this story of how God strikes Miriam, the wife of Aaron, with leprosy. Ever pay attention to what she was being punished for? A few verses earlier, we read:

Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married; for he had married an Ethiopian woman.–Numbers 12:1

The distinguishing mark of an Ethiopian, of course, is the color of their s...