“No one shall take a mill or an upper millstone in pledge, for that would be taking a life in pledge.

(A)“If a man is found stealing one of his brothers of the people of Israel, and if he (B)treats him as a slave or sells him, then that thief shall die. (C)So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

“Take care, in (D)a case of leprous[a] disease, to be very careful to do according to all that the Levitical priests shall direct you. As I commanded them, so you shall be careful to do.

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  1. Deuteronomy 24:8 Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13

Do not take a pair of millstones—not even the upper one—as security for a debt, because that would be taking a person’s livelihood as security.(A)

If someone is caught kidnapping a fellow Israelite and treating or selling them as a slave, the kidnapper must die.(B) You must purge the evil from among you.(C)

In cases of defiling skin diseases,[a] be very careful to do exactly as the Levitical(D) priests instruct you. You must follow carefully what I have commanded them.(E)

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  1. Deuteronomy 24:8 The Hebrew word for defiling skin diseases, traditionally translated “leprosy,” was used for various diseases affecting the skin.