Various Laws

“No one shall seize a handmill or an upper millstone as a pledge for a loan, since he would be seizing the debtor’s [a]means of life as a pledge.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 24:6 Lit soul

Safeguarding Life

“Do not take a pair of millstones or an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that is like taking a life as security.

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