Luke 17:11-12

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Jesus Cleanses Ten Lepers

¹¹^(A)On the way to Jerusalem ^(B)he was passing along between Samaria and Galilee. ¹²And as he entered a village, he was met by ten lepers,^[a] ^(C)who stood at a distance

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Luke 17:12 Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13

Numbers 5:1-4

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Unclean People

5 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²“Command the people of Israel that they ^(A)put out of the camp everyone who is leprous^[a] or has ^(B)a discharge and everyone who is ^(C)unclean through contact with the dead. ³You shall put out both male and female, putting them outside the camp, that they may not defile their camp, ^(D)in the midst of which I dwell.” ⁴And the people of Israel did so, and put them outside the camp; as the Lord said to Moses, so the people of Israel did.

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Numbers 5:2 Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13

2 Kings 7:3-5

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The Syrians Flee

³Now there were four men who were lepers^[a] ^(A)at the entrance to the gate. And they said to one another, “Why are we sitting here until we die? ⁴If we say, ‘Let us enter the city,’ the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. And if we sit here, we die also. So now come, let us go over to the camp of the Syrians. If they spare our lives we shall live, and if they kill us we shall but die.” ⁵So they arose at twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians. But when they came to the edge of the camp of the Syrians, behold, there was no one there.

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