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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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Protecting the Means of Life
Commentators explain that taking a millstone as a pledge was forbidden because it was an essential tool for a family's daily survival. As John Gill notes, families ground their own grain daily. Taking the millstone, even just the upper part, meant they could not make bread and would starve. The law literally protected a person's life-sustaining equipment.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Compare Exodus 22:25-26.
19th Century
Anglican
The nether or the upper millstone. —Literally, the two millstones, or even the upper one.
A man’s life.
16th Century
Protestant
No man shall take the nether. God now enforces another principle of equity in relation to loans (not to be too strict107) regar…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge , &c.] The first word being of the dual number takes i…
It is of great consequence that love be maintained between husband and wife, and that they carefully avoid everything that might cause them to beco…
