Deuteronomy 24:6 “Do not take a pair of millstones or even an upper millstone as securit…”

Deuteronomy 24:6

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man’s life to pledge.

World English Bible

No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone as a pledge, for he takes a life in pledge.

American Standard Version

No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh a man’s life to pledge.

Geneva Bible 1599

No man shall take the nether nor the vpper milstone to pledge: for this gage is his liuing.

Darby Translation

No man shall take the hand-mill or the upper millstone in pledge; for it would be taking life in pledge.

Young's Literal Translation

'None doth take in pledge millstones, and rider, for life it [is] he is taking in pledge.

Bible in Basic English

No one is to take, on account of a debt, the stones with which grain is crushed: for in doing so he takes a man's living.

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Cross references

“shall take”

Revelation 18:22 Exodus 22:26 Exodus 22:27

Revelation 18:22 · BSB

And the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters, will never ring out in you again. Nor will any craftsmen of any trade be found in you again, nor the sound of a millstone be heard in you again.

Exodus 22:26 · BSB

If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,

Exodus 22:27 · BSB

because his cloak is the only covering he has for his body. What else will he sleep in? And if he cries out to Me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.

“life”

Deuteronomy 20:19 Luke 12:15 Genesis 44:30

Deuteronomy 20:19 · BSB

When you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit. You must not cut them down. Are the tr…

Luke 12:15 · BSB

And He said to them, “Watch out! Guard yourselves against every form of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”

Genesis 44:30 · BSB

So if the boy is not with us when I return to your servant, and if my father, whose life is wrapped up in the boy’s life,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5If a man is newly married, he must not be sent to war or be pressed into any duty. For one year he is free to stay at home and bring joy to the wife he has married.

7If a man is caught kidnapping one of his Israelite brothers, whether he treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnapper must die. So you must purge the evil from among you.

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