Deuteronomy 24:6
ContextNET © | 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 © | 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 © | "No one shall take a handmill or an upper millstone in pledge, for he would be taking a life in pledge. |
NLT © | "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 © | Don't seize a handmill or an upper millstone as collateral for a loan. You'd be seizing someone's very life. |
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. |
NRSV © | No one shall take a mill or an upper millstone in pledge, for that would be taking a life in pledge. |
NKJV © | "No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone in pledge, for he takes one’s living in pledge. |
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NET © | 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 |
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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. |