The Geneva Bible Translation Notes, [1599], at sacred-texts.com
(a) Zipporah, Moses' wife, was a Midianite, and because Midian bordered on Ethiopia, it is sometimes referred to in the scriptures by this name.
(Now the man Moses [was] very (b) meek, above all the men which [were] upon the face of the earth.)
(b) And so endured their grudging, although he knew of them.
And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, [I] the LORD will make myself known unto him in a (c) vision, [and] will speak unto him in a dream.
(c) These were the two ordinary means.
My servant Moses [is] not so, who [is] faithful (d) in all mine house.
(d) In all Israel which was his Church.
With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he (e) behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
(e) As far as any man was able to comprehend, which he calls his back parts, (Exo 33:23).
And the cloud departed from off the (f) tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam [became] leprous, [white] as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, [she was] leprous.
(f) From the door of the tabernacle.
Let her not be as one (g) dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.
(g) As a child that is stillborn, as if it is only the skin.
And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but (h) spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in [again].
(h) In his displeasure.
And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of (a) Paran.
(a) That is, in Rithmah, which was in Paran, (Num 33:18).