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Deuteronomy 24:6-8
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Deuteronomy 24:6-8
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Pledges and Kidnappings. 6 [a]No one shall take a hand mill or even its upper stone as a pledge for debt, for that would be taking as a pledge the debtor’s life.
7 If anyone is caught kidnapping a fellow Israelite, enslaving or selling the victim, that kidnapper shall be put to death.(A) Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst.
Skin Diseases. 8 (B)In an attack of scaly infection[b] you shall be careful to observe exactly and to carry out all the instructions the levitical priests give you, as I have commanded them: observe them carefully.
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- 24:6 Since the Israelites ground their grain into flour only in sufficient quantity for their current need, to deprive a debtor of his hand mill was equivalent to condemning him to starvation.
- 24:8 Scaly infection: the Hebrew word seems to have to do with one or more skin diseases that produce scales, such as psoriasis. Its precise meaning is uncertain. See note on Lv 13:1–14:57.
Deuteronomy 24:6-8
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Deuteronomy 24:6-8
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6 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)
7 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)
8 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)
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 24:8 The Hebrew word for defiling skin diseases, traditionally translated “leprosy,” was used for various diseases affecting the skin.
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