Deuteronomy 24:6

New International Reader's Version

Someone might borrow money from you and give you two millstones to keep until you are paid back. Don’t keep them. Don’t even keep the upper one. That person needs both millstones to make a living.

Cross References

Genesis 44:30

“So now, what will happen if the boy isn’t with us when I go back to my father? His life depends on the boy’s life.

Job 22:6

You took clothes away from your relatives just because they owed you some money. You left them naked for no reason at all.

Matthew 24:41

Two women will be grinding with a hand mill. One will be taken and the other left.

Luke 12:15

Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against wanting to have more and more things. Life is not made up of how much a person has.”

Deuteronomy 20:19

Suppose you surround a city and get ready to attack it. And suppose you fight against it for a long time in order to capture it. Then don’t chop down its trees and destroy them. You can eat their fruit. So don’t cut them down. Are the trees people? So why should you attack them?

Deuteronomy 24:5

Suppose a man has just married his wife. Then don’t send him into battle. Don’t give him any other duty either. He’s free to stay home for one year. He needs time to make his new wife happy.

Deuteronomy 24:7

Suppose someone is caught kidnapping another Israelite. And they sell or treat that person as a slave. Then the kidnapper must die. Get rid of that evil person.

Revelation 18:22

The songs of musicians will never be heard in you again. Gone will be the music of harps, flutes and trumpets. No worker of any kind will ever be found in you again. The sound of a millstone will never be heard in you again.