Deuteronomy 24:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone as a pledge: for he takes a man's life as a pledge.

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  • Deut 20:19 : 19 When you besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy the trees by forcing an axe against them: for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:
  • Luke 12:15 : 15 And he said to them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life does not consist in the abundance of the things which he possesses.
  • Rev 18:22 : 22 And the sound of harpists, and musicians, and flutists, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in you; and no craftsman, of any craft, shall be found any more in you; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in you;
  • Gen 44:30 : 30 Now therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;
  • Exod 22:26-27 : 26 If you take your neighbor's garment as a pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down, 27 for that is his only covering, his garment for his skin. What will he sleep in? And it shall come to pass, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 24:10-17
    8 verses
    78%

    10When you lend your brother anything, you shall not go into his house to fetch his pledge.

    11You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring out the pledge to you.

    12And if the man is poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge:

    13In any case you shall return the pledge to him when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his own clothing, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before the LORD your God.

    14You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is of your brethren or of the strangers that are in your land within your gates:

    15You shall give him his wages on the same day, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and sets his heart upon it: lest he cry against you to the LORD, and it be sin to you.

    16The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

    17You shall not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's clothing as a pledge:

  • Prov 20:16
    74%

    16Take his garment who is surety for a stranger, and hold it in pledge for a foreign woman.

  • Exod 22:25-26
    2 verses
    74%

    25If you lend money to any of my people who are poor among you, you shall not be like a moneylender to him; you shall not charge him interest.

    26If you take your neighbor's garment as a pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down,

  • Prov 22:26-28
    3 verses
    73%

    26Do not be one of those who shake hands, or of those who are sureties for debts.

    27If you have nothing to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

    28Do not remove the ancient landmark which your fathers have set.

  • Prov 27:13
    73%

    13Take his garment when he is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from him for a foreign woman.

  • Lev 25:36-37
    2 verses
    73%

    36Take no usury from him, or increase; but fear your God; that your brother may live with you.

    37You shall not give him your money upon usury, nor lend him your food for increase.

  • Job 22:6
    72%

    6For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

  • Deut 24:7
    72%

    7If a man is found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and makes merchandise of him, or sells him; then that thief shall die; and you shall put away the evil from among you.

  • Job 24:3
    71%

    3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

  • Deut 23:19
    71%

    19You shall not lend with interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent with interest:

  • Ezek 18:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

    16Nor has oppressed anyone, has not withheld the pledge, nor spoiled by violence, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment,

    17Who has taken off his hand from the poor, who has not received interest nor increase, has executed My judgments, has walked in My statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.

  • Deut 25:4
    70%

    4You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.

  • Ezek 18:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7And has not oppressed anyone, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has spoiled none by violence, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment,

    8He that has not given out loans with interest, nor taken any increase, that has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true judgment between man and man,

  • Exod 21:16
    70%

    16He who kidnaps a man, and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, shall surely be put to death.

  • Exod 22:14-15
    2 verses
    70%

    14If a man borrows anything from his neighbor and it is broken or dies, with its owner not being with it, he shall surely make restitution.

    15But if its owner is with it, he shall not make restitution; if it was hired, it came for its hire.

  • Deut 28:30-31
    2 verses
    69%

    30You shall marry a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not gather the grapes thereof.

    31Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat thereof: your donkey shall be violently taken away from before your face, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given unto your enemies, and you shall have none to rescue them.

  • Ezek 18:12-13
    2 verses
    69%

    12Has oppressed the poor and needy, has spoiled by violence, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,

    13Has given out loans with interest, and has taken increase; shall he then live? He shall not live: he has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.

  • Deut 22:30
    69%

    30A man shall not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's bed.

  • Exod 23:6
    69%

    6You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his dispute.

  • Deut 22:24
    69%

    24Then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them with stones so that they die; the young woman because she did not cry out, being in the city; and the man because he has humbled his neighbor's wife; so you shall put away the evil from among you.

  • Exod 22:10-11
    2 verses
    69%

    10If a man gives his neighbor a donkey, ox, sheep, or any animal to keep and it dies, is injured, or is driven away, with no one seeing it,

    11then an oath of the LORD shall be between them both that he has not put his hand upon his neighbor's goods; and the owner shall accept this, and he shall not make restitution.

  • Job 24:9
    69%

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

  • Exod 22:1
    69%

    1If a man steals an ox or a sheep and kills it or sells it, he shall restore five oxen for the ox and four sheep for the sheep.

  • Exod 21:30
    68%

    30If there is imposed on him a sum of money, then he shall pay to redeem his life whatever is imposed on him.

  • Prov 6:1
    68%

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

  • Prov 6:30
    68%

    30Men do not despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry;

  • Isa 28:28
    68%

    28Bread grain is crushed, yet he does not thresh it forever, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor crush it with his horsemen.

  • Ps 15:5
    68%

    5He who does not put out his money at usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.

  • Matt 24:41
    67%

    41Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and the other left.

  • Deut 20:7
    67%

    7And what man is there who has betrothed a wife, and has not taken her? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.

  • Num 30:2
    67%

    2If a man makes a vow to the LORD, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

  • Matt 24:18
    67%

    18And let him who is in the field not turn back to take his clothes.

  • Deut 24:20
    67%

    20When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.