KJV King James Version
No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh [a man’s] life to pledge.
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Deuteronomy 24:6
No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh [a man’s] life to pledge.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Do not take a pair of millstones or even an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that would be taking one’s livelihood as security.
WEB World English Bible
No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes a life in pledge.
ASV American Standard Version
No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh a man’s life to pledge.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
None doth take in pledge millstones, and rider, for life it is he is taking in pledge.
Surrounding context — Deuteronomy 24
3 And [if] the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth [it] in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her [to be] his wife;
4 Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that [is] abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance.
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 from among you.
8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, [so] ye shall observe to do.
9 Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt.
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Luke 12:15And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.Deuteronomy 20:19When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field [is] man’s [life]) to employ [them] in the siege:Revelation 18:22And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft [he be], shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;Genesis 44:30Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad [be] not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad’s life;Exodus 22:26-27If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
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