Deuteronomy 24:6

God's Word

Never let a family’s handmill for grinding flour—or even part of a handmill—be taken to guarantee a loan. The family wouldn’t be able to prepare food in order to stay alive.

Cross References

Genesis 44:30

“Our father’s life is wrapped up with the boy’s life. If I come ⌞home⌟ without the boy

Job 22:6

For no reason you take your brothers’ goods as security for a loan and strip them of their clothes.

Matthew 24:41

Two women will be working at a mill. One will be taken, and the other one will be left.

Luke 12:15

He told the people, “Be careful to guard yourselves from every kind of greed. Life is not about having a lot of material possessions.”

Deuteronomy 20:19

This is what you must do whenever you blockade a city for a long time in order to capture it in war. Don’t harm any of its fruit trees with an ax. You can eat the fruit. Never cut those trees down, because the trees of the field are not people you have come to blockade.

Deuteronomy 24:5

A man who has recently been married will be free from military duty or any other public service. For one year he is free to stay at home and make his new wife happy.

Deuteronomy 24:7

Whoever kidnaps another Israelite must die. The kidnapper must die, whether he treated the other person like a slave or sold him. You must get rid of this evil.

Revelation 18:22

The sound of harpists, musicians, flutists, and trumpeters will never be heard in it again. A skilled craftsman—regardless of the type of craft— will never be found in it again. The sound of a millstone will never be heard in it again.