⁶ Do not take a pair of millstones—not even the upper one—as security for a debt, because that would be taking a person’s livelihood as security.^(A)

¹⁵ Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.”^(A)

¹⁹ When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it to capture it, do not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can eat their fruit. Do not cut them down. Are the trees people, that you should besiege them?^[a]

³⁰ “So now, if the boy is not with us when I go back to your servant my father,^(A) and if my father, whose life is closely bound up with the boy’s life,^(B)

²⁶ If you take your neighbor’s cloak as a pledge,^(A) return it by sunset, ²⁷ because that cloak is the only covering your neighbor has. What else can they sleep in?^(B) When they cry out to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.^(C)