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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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Albert Barnes
On Deuteronomy 24:6
18th Century
Theologian
Compare Exodus 22:25-26.
Charles Ellicott
On Deuteronomy 24:6
19th Century
Bishop
The nether or the upper millstone. —Literally, the two millstones, or even the upper one.
A man’s life.
John Calvin
On Deuteronomy 24:6
16th Century
Theologian
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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John Gill
On Deuteronomy 24:6
17th Century
Pastor
No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge ,
&c.] The first word being of the dual number takes i…
Matthew Henry
On Deuteronomy 24:5–13
17th Century
Minister
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…