Numbers 12:10

And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle,.... Not from off the door of the tabernacle, as Aben Ezra, for that is implied in the last clause of Nu 12:9, but from off that part of the tabernacle, the most holy place, where it had used to abide; but now it went up higher in the air, or removed at some distance from thence, which was a further indication of the sore displeasure of God; that as he would not stay with Aaron and Miriam at the door of the tabernacle, so neither would he suffer the cloud to continue over it, as it was wont to do, so long as they were there:and, behold, Miriam [became] leprous, [white] as snow; was smote immediately with a leprosy by the Lord, as the hand of Moses was in a miraculous way, Ex 4:6; and as Gehazi was, who was smitten of God in like manner, 2Ki 5:27; in an ordinary and gradual leprosy, when it was all white, the man was clean, Le 13:13; but in an extraordinary one, and which was immediately from God, and at once, in this case it was a sign it was incurable.