6None doth take in pledge millstones, and rider, for life it is he is taking in pledge.


In Context

3 and the latter man hath hated her, and written for her a writing of divorce, and given it into her hand, and sent her out of his house, or when the latter man dieth, who hath taken her to himself for a wife:

4 Her former husband who sent her away is not able to turn back to take her to be to him for a wife, after that she hath become defiled; for an abomination it is before Jehovah, and thou dost not cause the land to sin which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee — an inheritance.

5 When a man taketh a new wife, he doth not go out into the host, and one doth not pass over unto him for anything; free he is at his own house one year, and hath rejoiced his wife whom he hath taken.

6 None doth take in pledge millstones, and rider, for life it is he is taking in pledge.

7 'When a man is found stealing a person, of his brethren, of the sons of Israel, and hath tyrannized over him, and sold him, then hath that thief died, and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst.

8 'Take heed, in the plague of leprosy, to watch greatly, and to do according to all that the priests, the Levites, teach you; as I have commanded them ye observe to do;

Deuteronomy 24:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

24:6No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh [a man’s] life to pledge.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

24:6Do not take a pair of millstones-not even the upper one-as security for a debt, because that would be taking a man's livelihood as security.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

24:6Thou shalt not take the nether, nor the upper millstone to pledge: for he hath pledged his life to thee.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

24:6No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh a man's life to pledge.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:6No man shall take the hand-mill or the upper millstone in pledge; for it would be taking life in pledge.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

24:6No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:6No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone for a pledge: for he taketh a man's life for a pledge.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:6No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes [a man's] life to pledge.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

24:6No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he takes a man's life to pledge.