Deuteronomy 24:6 
Context| NETBible | One must not take either lower or upper millstones as security on a loan, for that is like taking a life itself as security. 1 |
| NIV © biblegateway Deu 24:6 |
Do not take a pair of millstones—not even the upper one— as security for a debt, because that would be taking a man’s livelihood as security. |
| NASB © biblegateway Deu 24:6 |
"No one shall take a handmill or an upper millstone in pledge, for he would be taking a life in pledge. |
| NLT © biblegateway Deu 24:6 |
"It is wrong to take a pair of millstones, or even just the upper millstone, as a pledge, for the owner uses it to make a living. |
| MSG © biblegateway Deu 24:6 |
Don't seize a handmill or an upper millstone as collateral for a loan. You'd be seizing someone's very life. |
| BBE © SABDAweb Deu 24:6 |
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. |
| NRSV © bibleoremus Deu 24:6 |
No one shall take a mill or an upper millstone in pledge, for that would be taking a life in pledge. |
| NKJV © biblegateway Deu 24:6 |
"No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone in pledge, for he takes one’s living in pledge. |
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| NETBible | One must not take either lower or upper millstones as security on a loan, for that is like taking a life itself as security. 1 |
| NET Notes |
1 sn Taking millstones as security on a loan would amount to taking the owner’s own life in pledge, since the millstones were the owner’s means of earning a living and supporting his family. |
