‘So if I come to your servant my father and the boy is not with us #– #his life is wrapped up with the boy’s life #– #
Deuteronomy 24:6 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised ‘Do not take a pair of grindstones or even the upper millstone as security for a debt, because that is like taking a life as security. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh a man’s life to pledge. Common English Bible Millstones or even just the upper millstone must not be pawned, because that would be pawning someone’s livelihood. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 Thou shalt not take the nether, nor the upper millstone to pledge: for he hath pledged his life to thee. |
‘So if I come to your servant my father and the boy is not with us #– #his life is wrapped up with the boy’s life #– #
For you took collateral from your brothers without cause, stripping off their clothes and leaving them naked.
Two women will be grinding grain with a hand mill; one will be taken and one left.
He then told them, ‘Watch out and be on your guard against all greed, because one’s life is not in the abundance of his possessions.’
‘When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it in order to capture it, do not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can get food from them. Do not cut them down. Are trees of the field human, to come under siege by you?
‘When a man takes a bride, he must not go out with the army or be liable for any duty. He is free to stay at home for one year, so that he can bring joy to the wife he has married.
‘If a man is discovered kidnapping one of his Israelite brothers, whether he treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnapper must die. You must purge the evil from you.
The sound of harpists, musicians, flutists, and trumpeters will never be heard in you again; no craftsman of any trade will ever be found in you again; the sound of a mill will never be heard in you again;