Now, imagine what will happen when we go home without our youngest brother—that boy is the most important thing in our father’s life!
Deuteronomy 24:6 - Easy To Read Version “When you lend a person something, you must not take as security [147] any part of the stones he uses to grind flour. Why? Because that would be the same as taking away his food. 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. |
Now, imagine what will happen when we go home without our youngest brother—that boy is the most important thing in our father’s life!
Maybe you loaned a brother some money\par and forced him to give you something\par to prove he would pay it back.\par Maybe you took some poor man’s clothes\par as collateral {\cf2\super [34]} for a loan.\par Maybe you did that for no reason.\par
Two women will be grinding grain with a mill. {\cf2\super [380]} One woman will be taken and the other woman will be left.
Then Jesus said to them. “Be careful and guard against all kinds of greed. A person does not get life from the many things he owns.”
“When you are making war against a city, you might surround that city for a long time. You must not cut down the fruit trees around that city. You may eat the fruit from these trees, but you must not cut them down. These trees are not the enemy, so don’t make war against them!
“When a man is newly married, he must not be sent into the army. And he must not be given any other special work. For one year he must be free to stay home and make his new wife happy.
“A person might kidnap another Israelite—one of his own people. And that kidnapper might sell that person as a slave. If that happens, then that kidnapper must be killed. You must remove that evil from your group.
The music of people playing harps {\cf2\super [138]} and other instruments, flutes and trumpets,\par will never be heard in you again.\par No workman doing any job will ever be found in you again.\par The sound of a millstone {\cf2\super [139]} will never be heard in you again.\par