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Leprosy
A terrible form of skin disease spoken of in the Old and New Testaments. Many notable people in the Bible were at some time afflicted with it, including Moses (Ex. 4:6–7), his sister Miriam (Num. 12:10), Naaman (2 Kgs. 5), and King Uzziah (2 Chr. 26:19–21).