Numbers 12:15 - Exposition

Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days. It does not say that Miriam was healed forthwith of her leprosy, but the presumption is to that effect. Not the punishment itself, but the shame of it, was to last according to the answer of God. Her ease, therefore, would not fall under the law of Numbers 5:2 , or of Le 13:46, but would be analogous to that treated of in Leviticus 14:1-57 . No doubt size had to submit to all the rites there prescribed, humiliating as they must have been to the prophetess and the sister of the law-giver; and these rites involved exclusion from her tent for a period of seven days (Le Leviticus 14:8 ). By God's command exclusion from her tent was made exclusion from the camp.