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Deuteronomy 24:6-9

Listen to Deuteronomy 24:6-9

Safeguarding Life

6 "Do not take a pair of millstones or an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that is like taking a life as security.
7 "If a man is discovered kidnapping one of his Israelite brothers, whether he treats him as a slave or sells him,[a] the kidnapper must die. You must purge the evil from you.
8 "Be careful in a case of infectious skin disease, following carefully everything the Levitical priests instruct you to do. Be careful to do as I have commanded them.
9 Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam on the journey after you left Egypt.[b]

Deuteronomy 24:6-9 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 24

This chapter contains various laws concerning divorces, De 24:1-4; the discharge of a newly married man from war and business, De 24:5; about taking pledges, De 24:6,10-13; man stealing, De 24:7; the plague of leprosy, De 24:8,9; and giving servants their hire in due time, De 24:14,15; concerning doing justice in capital cases, and towards the stranger, fatherless, and widow, De 24:16-18; and of charity to the poor, in allowing them the forgotten sheaf, and the gleanings of their oliveyards and vineyards, De 24:19-22.

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