Deuteronomy 24:6

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One must not take either lower or upper millstones as security on a loan, for that is like taking a life itself as security.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 20:19 : 19 If you besiege a city for a long time while attempting to capture it, you must not chop down its trees, for you may eat fruit from them and should not cut them down. A tree in the field is not human that you should besiege it!
  • Luke 12:15 : 15 Then he said to them,“Watch out and guard yourself from all types of greed, because one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
  • Rev 18:22 : 22 And the sound of the harpists, musicians, flute players, and trumpeters will never be heard in you again. No craftsman who practices any trade will ever be found in you again; the noise of a mill will never be heard in you again.
  • Gen 44:30 : 30 “So now, when I return to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us– his very life is bound up in his son’s life.
  • Exod 22:26-27 : 26 If you do take the garment of your neighbor in pledge, you must return it to him by the time the sun goes down, 27 for it is his only covering– it is his garment for his body. What else can he sleep in? And when he cries out to me, I will hear, for I am gracious.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 24:10-17
    8 verses
    78%

    10When you make any kind of loan to your neighbor, you may not go into his house to claim what he is offering as security.

    11You must stand outside and the person to whom you are making the loan will bring out to you what he is offering as security.

    12If the person is poor you may not use what he gives you as security for a covering.

    13You must by all means return to him at sunset the item he gave you as security so that he may sleep in his outer garment and bless you for it; it will be considered a just deed by the LORD your God.

    14You must not oppress a lowly and poor servant, whether one from among your fellow Israelites or from the resident foreigners who are living in your land and villages.

    15You must pay his wage that very day before the sun sets, for he is poor and his life depends on it. Otherwise he will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

    16Fathers must not be put to death for what their children do, nor children for what their fathers do; each must be put to death for his own sin.

    17You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow’s garment as security for a loan.

  • Prov 20:16
    74%

    16Take a man’s garment when he has given security for a stranger, and hold him in pledge on behalf of strangers.

  • Exod 22:25-26
    2 verses
    74%

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

    26If you do take the garment of your neighbor in pledge, you must return it to him by the time the sun goes down,

  • Prov 22:26-28
    3 verses
    73%

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

    27If you do not have enough to pay, your bed will be taken right out from under you!

    28Do not move an ancient boundary stone which was put in place by your ancestors.

  • Prov 27:13
    73%

    13Take a man’s garment when he has given security for a stranger, and hold him in pledge on behalf of a stranger.

  • Lev 25:36-37
    2 verses
    73%

    36Do not take interest or profit from him, but you must fear your God and your brother must live with you.

    37You must not lend him your money at interest and you must not sell him food for profit.

  • Job 22:6
    72%

    6“For you took pledges from your brothers for no reason, and you stripped the clothing from the naked.

  • Deut 24:7
    72%

    7If a man is found kidnapping a person from among his fellow Israelites, and regards him as mere property and sells him, that kidnapper must die. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

  • Job 24:3
    71%

    3They drive away the orphan’s donkey; they take the widow’s ox as a pledge.

  • Deut 23:19
    71%

    19Respect for Others’ Property You must not charge interest on a loan to your fellow Israelite, whether on money, food, or anything else that has been loaned with interest.

  • Ezek 18:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

    16does not oppress anyone or keep what has been given in pledge, does not commit robbery, gives his food to the hungry, and clothes the naked,

    17refrains from wrongdoing, does not engage in usury or charge interest, carries out my regulations and follows my statutes. He will not die for his father’s iniquity; he will surely live.

  • Deut 25:4
    70%

    4You must not muzzle your ox when it is treading grain.

  • Ezek 18:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7does not oppress anyone, but gives the debtor back whatever was given in pledge, does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and clothes the naked,

    8does not engage in usury or charge interest, but refrains from wrongdoing, promotes true justice between men,

  • Exod 21:16
    70%

    16“Whoever kidnaps someone and sells him, or is caught still holding him, must surely be put to death.

  • Exod 22:14-15
    2 verses
    70%

    14“If a man borrows an animal from his neighbor, and it is hurt or dies when its owner was not with it, the man who borrowed it will surely pay.

    15If its owner was with it, he will not have to pay; if it was hired, what was paid for the hire covers it.

  • Deut 28:30-31
    2 verses
    69%

    30You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.

    31Your ox will be slaughtered before your very eyes but you will not eat of it. Your donkey will be stolen from you as you watch and will not be returned to you. Your flock of sheep will be given to your enemies and there will be no one to save you.

  • Ezek 18:12-13
    2 verses
    69%

    12oppresses the poor and the needy, commits robbery, does not give back what was given in pledge, prays to idols, performs abominable acts,

    13engages in usury and charges interest. Will he live? He will not! Because he has done all these abominable deeds he will certainly die. He will bear the responsibility for his own death.

  • Deut 22:30
    69%

    30(23:1) A man may not marry his father’s former wife and in this way dishonor his father.

  • Exod 23:6
    69%

    6“You must not turn away justice for your poor people in their lawsuits.

  • Deut 22:24
    69%

    24you must bring the two of them to the gate of that city and stone them to death, the young woman because she did not cry out though in the city and the man because he violated his neighbor’s fiancée; in this way you will purge evil from among you.

  • Exod 22:10-11
    2 verses
    69%

    10If a man gives his neighbor a donkey or an ox or a sheep or any beast to keep, and it dies or is injured or is carried away without anyone seeing it,

    11then there will be an oath to the LORD between the two of them, that he has not laid his hand on his neighbor’s goods, and its owner will accept this, and he will not have to pay.

  • Job 24:9
    69%

    9The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.

  • Exod 22:1
    69%

    1Laws about Property(21:37)“If a man steals an ox or a sheep and kills it or sells it, he must pay back five head of cattle for the ox, and four sheep for the one sheep.

  • Exod 21:30
    68%

    30If a ransom is set for him, then he must pay the redemption for his life according to whatever amount was set for him.

  • Prov 6:1
    68%

    1Admonitions and Warnings against Dangerous and Destructive Acts My child, if you have made a pledge for your neighbor, if you have become a guarantor for a stranger,

  • Prov 6:30
    68%

    30People do not despise a thief when he steals to fulfill his need when he is hungry.

  • Isa 28:28
    68%

    28Grain is crushed, though one certainly does not thresh it forever. The wheel of one’s wagon rolls over it, but his horses do not crush it.

  • Ps 15:5
    68%

    5He does not charge interest when he lends his money. He does not take bribes to testify against the innocent. The one who lives like this will never be shaken.

  • Matt 24:41
    67%

    41There will be two women grinding grain with a mill; one will be taken and one left.

  • Deut 20:7
    67%

    7Or who among you has become engaged to a woman but has not married her? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else marry her.”

  • Num 30:2
    67%

    2If a man makes a vow to the LORD or takes an oath of binding obligation on himself, he must not break his word, but must do whatever he has promised.

  • Matt 24:18
    67%

    18and the one in the field must not turn back to get his cloak.

  • Deut 24:20
    67%

    20When you beat your olive tree you must not repeat the procedure; the remaining olives belong to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow.