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.
No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man’s life to pledge.
No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone as a pledge, for he takes a life in pledge.
No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh a man’s life to pledge.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- 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, 27; Revelation 18:22
- life
- Deuteronomy 20:19; Genesis 44:30; Luke 12:15