"No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge."
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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:
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;
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:
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.
No man shall take the hand-mill or the upper millstone in pledge; for it would be taking life in pledge.
No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.
No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone for a pledge: for he taketh a man's life for a pledge.
No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes [a man's] life to pledge.
`None doth take in pledge millstones, and rider, for life it `is' he is taking in pledge.