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“A person[a] shall not take[b] a pair of millstones or an upper millstone, for he is taking necessities of life as a pledge.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 24:6 Hebrew “he”
  2. Deuteronomy 24:6 Or “require”
  3. Deuteronomy 24:6 Literally “for a life he is taking as a pledge”

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)

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