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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Deu 24:6 — No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh [a man's] life to pledge.
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Small hand-mills, which ground at one time only a sufficient quantity for a day's consumption; hence they were forbidden to take either of the stones to pledge, because if they did, they would be deprived of the means of preparing their necessary food, and the family be without bread. On this account they are called in the text, a man's life. The same reason holds good against receiving in pledge, or distraining for debt, any instrument of labour, by which men earn their livelihood. Exd 22:26,27; Rev 18:22 |
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Deu 20:19; Gen 44:30; Luk 12:15 |
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Exd 22:26 |
If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down: |
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Exd 22:27 |
For that [is] his covering only, it [is] his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I [am] gracious. |
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Rev 18:22 |
And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft [he be], shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee; |
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Deu 20:19 |
When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field [is] man's [life]) to employ [them] in the siege: |
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Gen 44:30 |
Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad [be] not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life; |
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Luk 12:15 |
And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Deuteronomy 24:6," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Deu/24/6.html>.
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