Deuteronomy 24:6-9 - Safeguarding Life

6 One must not take either lower or upper millstones as security on a loan, for that is like taking a life itself as security.

7 If a man is found kidnapping a person from among his fellow Israelites, and regards him as mere property and sells him, that kidnapper must die. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

8 Be careful during an outbreak of leprosy to follow precisely all that the Levitical priests instruct you; as I have commanded them, so you should do. 9 Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam along the way after you left Egypt.


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