Deuteronomy 24:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ “No one shall take a mill or an upper millstone in pledge, for that would be taking a life in pledge.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ No man shall take a mill or an upper millstone in pledge, for he would be taking a life in pledge.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh a man’s life to pledge.

Common English Bible

⁶ Millstones or even just the upper millstone must not be pawned, because that would be pawning someone’s livelihood.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ You shall not accept an upper or lower millstone as collateral. For then he will have placed his life with you.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ Thou shalt not take the nether, nor the upper millstone to pledge: for he hath pledged his life to thee.

Deuteronomy 24:6 Cross References

Genesis 44:30

Now therefore, when I come to your servant my father and the boy is not with us, then, as his life is bound up in the boy’s life,

Job 22:6

For you have exacted pledges from your family for no reason and stripped the naked of their clothing.

Matthew 24:41

Two women will be grinding meal together; one will be taken, and one will be left.

Luke 12:15

And he said to them, “Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of possessions.”

Deuteronomy 20:19

“If you besiege a town for a long time, making war against it in order to take it, you must not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them. Although you may take food from them, you must not cut them down. Are trees in the field human beings that they should come under siege from you?

Deuteronomy 24:5

“When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or be charged with any related duty. He shall be free at home one year, to be happy with the wife whom he has married.

Deuteronomy 24:7

“If someone is caught kidnaping another Israelite, enslaving or selling the Israelite, then that kidnaper shall die. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

Revelation 18:22

and the sound of harpists and entertainers and of flutists and trumpeters will be heard in you no more, and an artisan of any trade will be found in you no more, and the sound of the millstone will be heard in you no more,