Deuteronomy 24:6 Parallel Translations

Never let a family's handmill for grinding flour-or even part of a handmill-be taken to guarantee a loan. The family wouldn't be able to prepare food in order to stay alive.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.

ASV:

No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh a man's life to pledge.

BBE:

No one is to take, on account of a debt, the stones with which grain is crushed: for in doing so he takes a man's living.

DBY:

No man shall take the hand-mill or the upper millstone in pledge; for it would be taking life in pledge.

ERV:

No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.

JPS:

No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh a man's life to pledge.

WBS:

No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone for a pledge: for he taketh a man's life for a pledge.

WEB:

No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes a man's life to pledge.

YLT:

None doth take in pledge millstones, and rider, for life it is he is taking in pledge.

Deuteronomy 24:6 Cross References

XREF:

Deuteronomy 24:5 "When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out with the army nor be charged with any duty; he shall be free at home one year and shall give happiness to his wife whom he has taken.

Deuteronomy 24:7 "If a man is caught kidnapping any of his countrymen of the sons of Israel, and he deals with him violently or sells him, then that thief shall die; so you shall purge the evil from among you. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

24:6 No man shall take the nether or the upper {d} millstone to pledge: for he taketh [a man's] life to pledge.
(d) Not anything by which a man gets his living.

WES:

24:6 Mill - stone - Used in their hand - mills. Under this, he understands all other things necessary to get a livelihood, the taking away whereof is against the laws both of charity and prudence, seeing by those things alone he can be enabled both to subsist and to pay his debts. Life - His livelihood, the necessary support of his life.

MHC:

24:5-13 It is of great consequence that love be kept up between husband and wife; that they carefully avoid every thing which might make them strange one to another. Man-stealing was a capital crime, which could not be settled, as other thefts, by restitution. The laws concerning leprosy must be carefully observed. Thus all who feel their consciences under guilt and wrath, must not cover it, or endeavour to shake off their convictions; but by repentance, and prayer, and humble confession, take the way to peace and pardon. Some orders are given about pledges for money lent. This teaches us to consult the comfort and subsistence of others, as much as our own advantage. Let the poor debtor sleep in his own raiment, and praise God for thy kindness to him. Poor debtors ought to feel more than commonly they do, the goodness of creditors who do not take all the advantage of the law against them, nor should this ever be looked upon as weakness.

CONC:

Account Crushed Debt Grain Handmill Hand-mill Livelihood Man's Mill Millstone Millstones Nether None Pledge Rider Security Stones Takes Taketh Taking Upper

Account Crushed Debt Handmill Life Mill Millstone Millstones Nether Pair Pledge Rider Security Stones Upper

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