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Deuteronomy 24:6
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“Do not take a pair of grindstones or even the upper millstone as security for a debt, because that is like taking a life as security.
No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes [a man's] life to pledge.
No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.
"A person shall not take a pair of millstones or an upper millstone, for he is taking necessities of life as a pledge.
"No one shall take a mill or an upper millstone in pledge, for that would be taking a life in pledge.
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.
One must not take either lower or upper millstones as security on a loan, for that is like taking a life itself as security.
"No one shall take a handmill or an upper millstone [used to grind grain into bread] as security [for a debt], for he would be taking a [person's] life in pledge.
"No one shall seize a handmill or an upper millstone as a pledge for a loan, since he would be seizing the debtor's means of life as a pledge.
No man shal take the nether nor the vpper milstone to pledge: for this gage is his liuing.
"No one shall take a handmill or an upper millstone in pledge, for he would be taking a life in pledge.
Moses said to Israel: When you lend money to people, you are allowed to keep something of theirs as a guarantee that they will pay back the loan. But don't take one or both of their millstones, or else they may starve. They need these stones for grinding grain into flour to make bread.
"No one may take a mill or even an upper millstone as collateral for a loan, because that would be taking as collateral the debtor's very means of sustenance.
No man shall take the hand-mill or the upper millstone in pledge; for it would be taking life in pledge.
"When you lend someone something, you must not take as security any part of the stones used to grind flour. That would be the same as taking away their food.
No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone as a pledge; for he takes a mans life to pledge.
"When you lend someone something, you are not to take as security his millstones used for grinding his grain. This would take away the family's means of preparing food to stay alive.
No one shall take in pledge the lower and upper millstone, for he is taking a man's life to pledge.
Thou shalt no take ye nethermost and vppermost mylstone to pledge, for he hat set ye his lyuynge to pledge.
No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh a man's life to pledge.
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.
No man shall take the neather or the vpper mylstone to pledge: for then he shall hurt a mans life.
No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh a man's life to pledge.
No man shall take the nether or the vpper milstone to pledge: for hee taketh a mans life to pledge.
No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.
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.
Thou schalt not take in the stide of wed the lowere and the hiyere queerne stoon of thi brothir, for he puttide his lijf to thee.
`None doth take in pledge millstones, and rider, for life it [is] he is taking in pledge.
No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes [a man's] life to pledge.
No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone for a pledge: for he taketh [a man's] life for a pledge.
No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes [a man's] life to pledge.
"No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone in pledge, for he takes one's living in pledge.
"It is wrong to take a set of millstones, or even just the upper millstone, as security for a loan, for the owner uses it to make a living.
"No one should take a man's stones that he uses to crush grain as a promise to pay what he owes, for he would be taking away a man's living.
No one shall take a mill or an upper millstone in pledge, for that would be taking a life in pledge.
No man shall take in pledge a handmill, or an upper millstone, - for he would be taking life, in pledge.
Thou shalt not take the nether, nor the upper millstone to pledge: for he hath pledged his life to thee.
Don't seize a handmill or an upper millstone as collateral for a loan. You'd be seizing someone's very life.
"No one shall take a handmill or an upper millstone in pledge, for he would be taking a life in pledge.
Contextual Overview
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
Behold, I am standing by the spring of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.
The maiden was very fair to look upon, a virgin, whom no man had known. She went down to the spring, and filled her jar, and came up.
So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran again to the well to draw, and she drew for all his camels.
When the camels had done drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing a half shekel, and two bracelets for her arms weighing ten gold shekels,
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand fast therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and keep their souls.
By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.
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.
