Deuteronomy 24:6

New English Translation

One must not take either lower or upper millstones as security on a loan, for that is like taking a life itself as security.

Cross References

Genesis 44:30

“So now, when I return to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us – his very life is bound up in his son’s life.

Job 22:6

“For you took pledges from your brothers for no reason, and you stripped the clothing from the naked.

Matthew 24:41

There will be two women grinding grain with a mill; one will be taken and one left.

Luke 12:15

Then he said to them, “Watch out and guard yourself from all types of greed, because one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”

Deuteronomy 20:19

If you besiege a city for a long time while attempting to capture it, you must not chop down its trees, for you may eat fruit from them and should not cut them down. A tree in the field is not human that you should besiege it!

Deuteronomy 24:5

When a man is newly married, he need not go into the army nor be obligated in any way; he must be free to stay at home for a full year and bring joy to the wife he has married.

Deuteronomy 24:7

If a man is found kidnapping a person from among his fellow Israelites, and regards him as mere property and sells him, that kidnapper must die. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

Revelation 18:22

And the sound of the harpists, musicians, flute players, and trumpeters will never be heard in you again. No craftsman who practices any trade will ever be found in you again; the noise of a mill will never be heard in you again.