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

“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”