Numbers 12:15

15. And the people journeyed not More than two million people Bertheau calculates three million are retarded in their journey by the sin of one influential person. Thus the unbelieving spies kept the whole nation out of Canaan nearly thirty-nine years. The sins of the great are national calamities.

Till Miriam was brought in There is no account of her healing. She was probably healed when Moses prayed. The healed leper was not permitted to enter his tent till seven days after the priest declared him healed. Leviticus 14:8. Two of the Targums read thus: “Because Miriam, the prophetess, had watched for a little hour on the river bank to know what would be the fate of Moses, for the sake of that merit all Israel, numbering sixty myriads, being eighty legions, and the cloud of glory, the tabernacle, and the well, went not till she was healed.”