Deuteronomy 24:6 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁶ 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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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 thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;

Job 22:6

For thou hast taken pledges of thy brother for nought, And stripped the naked of their clothing.

Matthew 24:41

two women shall be grinding at the mill; one is taken, and one is left.

Luke 12:15

And he said unto them, Take heed, and keep yourselves from all covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

Deuteronomy 20:19

When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by wielding an axe against them; for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of thee?

Deuteronomy 24:5

When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife which he hath taken.

Deuteronomy 24:7

If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, or sell him; then that thief shall die: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.

Revelation 18:22

And the voice of harpers and minstrels and flute-players and trumpeters shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft, shall be found any more at all in thee; and the voice of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;