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Deuteronomy 24:6

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6Someone might borrow money from you and give you two millstones to keep until you are paid back. Don’t keep them. Don’t even keep the upper one. That person depends on the millstones to make a living.

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

“No one shall take a mill or an upper millstone in pledge, for that would be taking a life in pledge.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

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.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

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

NLTNew Living Translation

“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.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

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

KJV 1900King James Version

No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man’s life to pledge.