Deuteronomy 24:8
Observe diligently that thou incur not the stroke of the leprosy, but thou shalt do whatsoever the priests of the Levitical race shall teach thee, according to what I have commanded them, and fulfil thou it carefully.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
9Remember what the Lord your God did to Mary, in the way when you came out of Egypt.
Cross References
Leviticus 13:2The man in whose skin or flesh shalt arise a different colour or a blister, or as it were something shining, that is, the stroke of the leprosy, shall be brought to Aaron the priest, or any one of his sons.
Leviticus 13:57And if after this there appear in those places that before were without spot, a flying and wandering leprosy: it must be burnt with fire.
Leviticus 14:9And on the seventh day he shall shave the hair of his head, and his beard and his eyebrows, and the hair of all his body. And having washed again his clothes, and his body,
Leviticus 14:57That it may be known when a thing is clean or unclean.
Mark 1:44And he saith to him: See thou tell no one; but go, shew thyself to the high priest, and offer for thy cleansing the things that Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.
Luke 17:14Whom when he saw, he said: Go, shew yourselves to the priests. And it came to pass, as they went, they were made clean.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 24:6-14
The Law of Divorce. ( b. c. 1451.) 5 When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken. 6 No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge. 7 If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away… Read the whole commentary →