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

“It is wrong to take a set of millstones, or even just the upper millstone, as security for a loan, for the owner uses it to make a living.

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