“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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Footnotes

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

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