Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the boy's life;
Deuteronomy 24:6 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes [a man's] life to pledge. 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 therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the boy's life;
For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
two women grinding at the mill, one will be taken and one will be left.
He said to them, *Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man's life doesn't consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.*
When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy the trees of it by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of you?
When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.
If a man be found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Yisra'el, and he deal with him as a slave, or sell him; then that thief shall die: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you.
The voice of harpists, minstrels, flute players, and trumpeters will be heard no more at all in you. No craftsman, of whatever craft, will be found any more at all in you. The sound of a mill will be heard no more at all in you.