6 No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.
6 No man shall take H2254 the nether H7347 or the upper millstone H7393 to pledge: H2254 for he taketh H2254 a man's life H5315 to pledge. H2254
6 No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh `a man's' life to pledge.
6 `None doth take in pledge millstones, and rider, for life it `is' he is taking in pledge.
6 No man shall take the hand-mill or the upper millstone in pledge; for it would be taking life in pledge.
6 No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes [a man's] life to pledge.
6 No one is to take, on account of a debt, the stones with which grain is crushed: for in doing so he takes a man's living.
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:
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;
If thou at all take thy neighbor's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down: 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.
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.
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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Commentary on Deuteronomy 24 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 24
In this chapter we have,
Deu 24:1-4
This is that permission which the Pharisees erroneously referred to as a precept, Mt. 19:7, Moses commanded to give a writing of divorcement. It was not so; our Saviour told them that he only suffered it because of the hardness of their hearts, lest, if they had not had liberty to divorce their wives, they should have ruled them with rigour, and it may be, have been the death of them. It is probable that divorces were in use before (they are taken for granted, Lev. 21:14), and Moses thought it needful here to give some rules concerning them.
Deu 24:5-13
Here is,
Deu 24:14-22
Here,