Deuteronomy 24:6
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
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“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 · Public Domain (CC0)“No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man’s life to pledge.”
King James Version · Public Domain“No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh a man’s life to pledge.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`None doth take in pledge millstones, and rider, for life it <FI>is<Fi> he is taking in pledge.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Deuteronomy 24:6 — 5 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 44:30So 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,
- Exodus 22:26If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,
- Deuteronomy 20:19When 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 trees of the field human, that you should besiege them?
- Luke 12:15And 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.”
- Revelation 18:22And 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.
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