Matthew Poole and continuators on Numbers 12:4

4 And the LORD spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the congregation, and they three came out,

Partly to shew his great respect unto Moses, and unto the grace of meekness; and partly to stifle the beginings of the sedition, that this example might not spread amongst the people, who had too much of that leaven among them.

To wit, out of your private dwellings, and from amongst the people, both that you may not infect them by such scandalous words, and partly that you may know my pleasure and your own doom.