Deuteronomy 24:6

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 20:19 : 19 When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of you?
  • Luke 12:15 : 15 He said to them, "Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man's life doesn't consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses."
  • Rev 18:22 : 22 The voice of harpists, minstrels, flute players, and trumpeters will be heard no more at all in you. No craftsman, of whatever craft, will be found any more at all in you. The sound of a mill will be heard no more at all in you.
  • Gen 44:30 : 30 Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy's life;
  • Exod 22:26-27 : 26 If you take your neighbor's garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down, 27 for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.

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  • Deut 24:10-17
    8 verses
    78%

    10When you do lend your neighbor any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.

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

    12If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;

    13you shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.

    14You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of your brothers, or of your foreigners who are in your land within your gates:

    15in his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it: lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.

    16The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

    17You shall not wrest the justice [due] to the foreigner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;

  • Prov 20:16
    74%

    16Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.

  • Exod 22:25-26
    2 verses
    74%

    25"If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you charge him interest.

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

  • Prov 22:26-28
    3 verses
    73%

    26Don't you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts.

    27If you don't have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

    28Don't move the ancient boundary stone, which your fathers have set up.

  • Prov 27:13
    73%

    13Take his garment when he puts up collateral for a stranger. Hold it for a wayward woman!

  • Lev 25:36-37
    2 verses
    73%

    36Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God; that your brother may live among you.

    37You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

  • Job 22:6
    72%

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

  • Deut 24:7
    72%

    7If a man be found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, or sell him; then that thief shall die: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

  • Job 24:3
    71%

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

  • Deut 23:19
    71%

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

  • Ezek 18:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

    16neither has wronged any, has not taken anything to pledge, neither has taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

    17who has withdrawn his hand from the poor, who has not received interest nor increase, has executed my ordinances, 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 wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

    8he who has not given forth on interest, neither has taken any increase, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,

  • Exod 21:16
    70%

    16"Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

  • Exod 22:14-15
    2 verses
    70%

    14"If a man borrows anything of his neighbor's, and it is injured, or dies, its owner not being with it, he shall surely make restitution.

    15If its owner is with it, he shall not make it good. If it is a leased thing, it came for its lease.

  • Deut 28:30-31
    2 verses
    69%

    30You shall betroth 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 use its fruit.

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

  • Ezek 18:12-13
    2 verses
    69%

    12has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,

    13has given forth on 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 on him.

  • Deut 22:30
    69%

    30A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.

  • Exod 23:6
    69%

    6"You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

  • Deut 22:24
    69%

    24then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn't cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor's wife: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

  • Exod 22:10-11
    2 verses
    69%

    10"If a man delivers to his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies or is injured, or driven away, no man seeing it;

    11the oath of Yahweh shall be between them both, whether he hasn't put his hand to his neighbor's goods; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.

  • Job 24:9
    69%

    9There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

  • Exod 22:1
    69%

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

  • Exod 21:30
    68%

    30If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid on him.

  • Prov 6:1
    68%

    1My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger;

  • Prov 6:30
    68%

    30Men don't despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry:

  • Isa 28:28
    68%

    28Bread flour must be ground; so he will not always be threshing it. Although he drives the wheel of his threshing cart over it, his horses don't grind it.

  • Ps 15:5
    68%

    5he who doesn't lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken. A Poem by David.

  • Matt 24:41
    67%

    41two women grinding at the mill, one will be taken and one will be left.

  • Deut 20:7
    67%

    7What man is there who has pledged to be married 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%

    2When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, 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%

    18Let him who is in the field not return back to get 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 foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.