⁸ In cases of defiling skin diseases,^[a] be very careful to do exactly as the Levitical^(A) priests instruct you. You must follow carefully what I have commanded them.^{(B) 9} Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam along the way after you came out of Egypt.^(C)

¹⁰ When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, do not go into their house to get what is offered to you as a pledge.^{(D) 11} Stay outside and let the neighbor to whom you are making the loan bring the pledge out to you. ¹² If the neighbor is poor, do not go to sleep with their pledge^(E) in your possession. ¹³ Return their cloak by sunset^(F) so that your neighbor may sleep in it.^(G) Then they will thank you, and it will be regarded as a righteous act in the sight of the Lord your God.^(H)