Numbers 5:28

5:28 But if the woman has not defiled herself, and is clean, then she will be free of ill effects ¹  and will be able to bear children.

Numbers 12:10

12:10 When ²  the cloud departed from above the tent, Miriam became ³  leprous ⁴  as snow. Then Aaron looked at ⁵  Miriam, and she was leprous!

Numbers 22:27-28

22:27 When the donkey saw the angel of the Lord, she crouched down under Balaam. Then Balaam was angry, and he beat his donkey with a staff.

22:28 Then the Lord opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you that you have beaten me these three times?”

Numbers 22:33

22:33 The donkey saw me and turned from me these three times. If ⁶  she had not turned from me, I would have killed you but saved her alive.”

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¹ tn Heb “will be free”; the words “of ill effects” have been supplied as a clarification.

² tn The disjunctive vav (ו) is here introducing a circumstantial clause of time.

³ tn There is no verb “became” in this line. The second half of the line is introduced with the particle הִנֵה (hinneh, “look, behold”) in its archaic sense. This deictic use is intended to make the reader focus on Miriam as well.

⁴ sn The word “leprosy” and “leprous” covers a wide variety of skin diseases, and need not be limited to the actual disease of leprosy known today as Hansen’s disease. The description of it here has to do with snow, either the whiteness or the wetness. If that is the case then there would be open wounds and sores – like Job’s illness (see M. Noth, Numbers [OTL], 95-96).

⁵ tn Heb “turned to.”

⁶ tc Many commentators consider אוּלַי (’ulay, “perhaps”) to be a misspelling in the MT in place of לוּלֵי (luley, “if not”).