Deuteronomy 24:6

Deuteronomy chapter 24 · verse 6 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh a man’s life to pledge.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man’s life to pledge.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh a man’s life to pledge.

Context

v.5When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he hath taken.

v.6This passage

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

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Luke 12:15

    And he said unto them, Take heed, and keep yourselves from all covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

  • Deuteronomy 20:19

    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 wielding an axe against them; for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of thee?

  • Genesis 44:30

    Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad’s life;

  • Revelation 18:22

    And the voice of harpers and minstrels and flute-players and trumpeters shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft, shall be found any more at all in thee; and the voice of a mill shall be heard no more at all in thee;

  • Exodus 22:26

    If thou at all take thy neighbor’s garment to pledge, thou shalt restore it unto him before the sun goeth down: