Deuteronomy 24:6

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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 a pledge.

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  • Deut 20:19 : 19 When you lay siege to a city for a long time to capture it, do not destroy its trees by cutting them down with an axe, for you may eat from them. Do not cut them down, for is the tree of the field a human that it should face the siege with you?
  • Luke 12:15 : 15 Then He said to them, "Watch out, and be on guard against every form of greed, because one’s life is not defined by the abundance of possessions."
  • Rev 18:22 : 22 The sound of harpists, musicians, flute players, and trumpeters will never be heard in you again. No craftsman of any trade will ever be found in you again. The sound of a millstone will never be heard in you again.
  • Gen 44:30 : 30 So now, if I come to your servant, my father, and the boy is not with us—since his life is so closely bound up with the boy's life—
  • Exod 22:26-27 : 26 For it is his only covering, the cloak for his body. What else can he sleep in? If he cries out to me, I will hear him, for I am gracious. 27 Do not blaspheme God or curse the leader of your people.

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  • Deut 24:10-17
    8 verses
    78%

    10When you lend your neighbor anything, do not enter their house to take what is offered as a pledge.

    11You must wait outside while the person to whom you are lending brings the pledge out to you.

    12If the person is poor, do not keep their pledge overnight.

    13Return their pledge by sunset so that they may sleep in their own garment and bless you; this will be considered a righteous act before the LORD your God.

    14Do not take advantage of a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether that worker is a fellow Israelite or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.

    15Pay them their wages each day before sunset, because they are poor and depend on it. Otherwise, they may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

    16Parents are not to be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.

    17Do not pervert justice for the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow's garment as security for a pledge.

  • Prov 20:16
    74%

    16Take a garment as security from one who guarantees a stranger's debt; hold it in pledge if it is for a foreign woman.

  • Exod 22:25-26
    2 verses
    74%

    25If you take your neighbor's cloak as a pledge, return it to him before the sun sets.

    26For it is his only covering, the cloak for his body. What else can he sleep in? If he cries out to me, I will hear him, for I am gracious.

  • Prov 22:26-28
    3 verses
    73%

    26Do not be one who shakes hands in pledge, or who puts up security for debts.

    27If you lack the means to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?

    28Do not remove the ancient boundary stone set up by your ancestors.

  • Prov 27:13
    73%

    13Take the garment of one who puts up security for a stranger; hold it in pledge if he does it for an outsider.

  • Lev 25:36-37
    2 verses
    73%

    36Do not take interest or profit from them, but fear your God, so that they may continue to live among you.

    37You must not lend them money at interest or sell them food for profit.

  • Job 22:6
    72%

    6For you have taken pledges from your brothers without cause, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

  • Deut 24:7
    72%

    7If someone is caught kidnapping one of their fellow Israelites and treating or selling them as a slave, the kidnapper must die. You must purge the evil from among you.

  • Job 24:3
    71%

    3They drive away the orphan’s donkey and take the widow’s ox as security.

  • Deut 23:19
    71%

    19Do not bring the wages of a prostitute or the price of a dog into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, for both are detestable to the LORD your God.

  • Ezek 18:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

    16He does not oppress anyone, or require a pledge for a loan, or commit robbery. He gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.

    17He refrains from harming the poor, does not lend at interest or take a profit, and obeys my rules and walkthroughs my statutes. Such a person will not die for his father's sins; he will surely live.

  • Deut 25:4
    70%

    4Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.

  • Ezek 18:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7He does not oppress anyone, but restores a pledge for a loan; he does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and clothes the naked.

    8He does not lend at interest or take a profit; he withholds his hand from injustice and judges fairly between parties.

  • Exod 21:16
    70%

    16Anyone who kidnaps another person, whether he sells him or the victim is still in his possession, shall surely be put to death.

  • Exod 22:14-15
    2 verses
    70%

    14If the owner is with the animal, the borrower does not need to pay. If it was rented, the payment covers the loss.

    15If a man seduces a virgin who is not pledged to be married and sleeps with her, he must pay the bride price for her and make her his wife.

  • Deut 28:30-31
    2 verses
    69%

    30You will become engaged to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not enjoy its fruit.

    31Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken forcibly from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them.

  • Ezek 18:12-13
    2 verses
    69%

    12oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore a pledge, looks to idols, and does detestable things,

    13He lends at interest and takes a profit. Will such a person live? He will not! Because he has committed all these abominations, he will surely be put to death, and his blood will be on his own head.

  • Exod 23:6
    69%

    6Do not deny justice to your poor among you in their lawsuit.

  • Deut 22:24
    69%

    24then you shall bring both of them to the gate of that city and stone them to death: the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he violated another man’s wife. You must purge the evil from among you.

  • Exod 22:10-11
    2 verses
    69%

    10the issue between them will be settled by an oath before the Lord that the neighbor has not taken the other’s property. The owner must accept this, and no restitution is required.

    11But if the animal was stolen from the neighbor, restitution must be made to the owner.

  • Job 24:9
    69%

    9They snatch the orphan from the breast and take the poor as a pledge.

  • Exod 22:1
    69%

    1If a thief is caught breaking in and is struck and killed, there is no bloodguilt for his death.

  • Exod 21:30
    68%

    30However, if a ransom is imposed on him, he must pay whatever is demanded for the redemption of his life.

  • Prov 6:1
    68%

    1My son, if you have become surety for your neighbor, if you have shaken hands in pledge with a stranger,

  • Prov 6:30
    68%

    30Men do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger when he is starving.

  • Isa 28:28
    68%

    28Grain must be ground to make bread, but it is not endlessly threshed. Though the wheels of a cart roll over it and its horses trample it, they do not crush it entirely.

  • Ps 15:5
    68%

    5Who does not lend money at interest or accept a bribe against the innocent. The one who does these things will never be shaken.

  • Matt 24:41
    67%

    41Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.

  • Deut 20:7
    67%

    7If anyone is engaged to a woman but has not yet married her, let him go back to his house, lest he die in battle and another man marry her.

  • Num 30:2
    67%

    2Moses spoke to the leaders of the tribes of Israel, saying, 'This is what the LORD has commanded:'

  • Matt 24:18
    67%

    18And let the one who is in the field not turn back to get their cloak.

  • Deut 24:20
    67%

    20When you beat your olive trees, do not go over the branches again. Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.