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Deuteronomy 24:6
New Living Translation
Deuteronomy 24:6
New Living Translation
6 “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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Deuteronomy 24:6
New English Translation
Deuteronomy 24:6
New English Translation
6 One must not take either lower or upper millstones as security on a loan, for that is like taking a life itself as security.[a]
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- Deuteronomy 24:6 sn Taking millstones as security on a loan would amount to taking the owner’s own life in pledge, since the millstones were the owner’s means of earning a living and supporting his family.
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