申命记 24:6

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

“不可拿人的磨，或是上磨石作抵押，因為這等於拿人的生命作抵押。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
不 可 拿 人 的 全 盘 磨 石 或 是 上 磨 石 作 当 头 ， 因 为 这 是 拿 人 的 命 作 当 头 。

Contextual Overview

⁵ A man who has just married must not be sent to war or be given any other duty. He should be free to stay home for a year to make his new wife happy. ⁶ If someone owes you something, do not take his two stones for grinding grain—not even the upper one—in place of what he owes, because this is how the person makes a living. ⁷ If someone kidnaps a fellow Israelite, either to make him a slave or sell him, the kidnapper must be killed. You must get rid of the evil among you. ⁸ Be careful when someone has a skin disease. Do exactly what the priests, the Levites, teach you, being careful to do what I have commanded them. ⁹ Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam on your way out of Egypt. ¹⁰ When you make a loan to your neighbors, don't go into their homes to get something in place of it. ¹¹ Stay outside and let them go in and get what they promised you. ¹² If a poor person gives you a coat to show he will pay the loan back, don't keep it overnight. ¹³ Give the coat back at sunset, because your neighbor needs that coat to sleep in, and he will be grateful to you. And the Lord your God will see that you have done a good thing.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

shall take: Small hand-mills, which ground at one time only a sufficient quantity for a day's consumption; hence they were forbidden to take either of the stones to pledge, because if they did, they would be deprived of the means of preparing their necessary food, and the family be without bread. On this account they are called in the text, a man's life. The same reason holds good against receiving in pledge, or distraining for debt, any instrument of labour, by which men earn their livelihood. Exodus 22:26, Exodus 22:27, Revelation 18:22

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

Reciprocal: Job 24:3 - drive Ezekiel 33:15 - restore Mark 12:44 - all her

Cross-References

Genesis 24:13
Here I am, standing by the spring, and the girls from the city are coming out to get water.

Genesis 24:16
She was very pretty, a virgin; she had never had sexual relations with a man. She went down to the spring and filled her jar, then came back up.

Genesis 24:20
So she quickly poured all the water from her jar into the drinking trough for the camels. Then she kept running to the well until she had given all the camels enough to drink.

Genesis 24:22
After the camels had finished drinking, he gave Rebekah a gold ring weighing one-fifth of an ounce and two gold arm bracelets weighing about four ounces each.

Galatians 5:1
We have freedom now, because Christ made us free. So stand strong. Do not change and go back into the slavery of the law.

Hebrews 10:39
But we are not those who turn back and are lost. We are people who have faith and are saved.

Hebrews 11:9
It was by faith that he lived like a foreigner in the country God promised to give him. He lived in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who had received that same promise from God.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge,.... The first word being of the dual number takes in both stones, wherefore Vatablus renders the words,

"ye shall not take for a pledge both the millstones, nor indeed the uppermost;''

which is the least; so far should they be from taking both, that they were not allowed to take the uppermost, which was the shortest, meanest, and lightest; and indeed if anyone of them was taken, the other became useless, so that neither was to be taken:

for he taketh [a man's] life to pledge; or with which his life is supported, and the life of his family; for if he has corn to supply them with, yet if his mill or millstones are pawned, he cannot grind his corn, and so he and his family must starve: and in those times and countries they did, as the Arabs do to this day, as Dr. Shaw d relates,

"most families grind their wheat and barley at home, having two portable millstones for that purpose; the uppermost whereof is turned round by a small handle of wood or iron, that is placed in the rim;''

and these millstones being portable, might be the more easily taken for pledges, which is here forbidden, for the above reason; and this takes in any other thing whatever, on which a man's living depends, or by which he gets his bread e.

d Travels, p. 231. Edit. 2. e Misn. Bava Metzia, c. 9. sect. 13.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Exodus 22:25-26.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 24:6. The nether or the upper mill-stone — Small hand-mills which can be worked by a single person were formerly in use among the Jews, and are still used in many parts of the East. As therefore the day's meal was generally ground for each day, they keeping no stock beforehand, hence they were forbidden to take either of the stones to pledge, because in such a case the family must be without bread. On this account the text terms the millstone the man's life.