“No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone in pledge, for he takes [a]one’s living in pledge.

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  1. Deuteronomy 24:6 life

Do not take a pair of millstones—not even the upper one—as security for a debt, because that would be taking a person’s livelihood as security.(A)

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10 “When you (A)lend your brother anything, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.

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10 When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, do not go into their house to get what is offered to you as a pledge.(A)

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12 And if the man is poor, you shall not [a]keep his pledge overnight.

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  1. Deuteronomy 24:12 Lit. sleep with his pledge

12 If the neighbor is poor, do not go to sleep with their pledge(A) in your possession.

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17 (A)“You shall not pervert justice due the stranger or the fatherless, (B)nor take a widow’s garment as a pledge.

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17 Do not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless(A) of justice,(B) or take the cloak of the widow as a pledge.

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For you have (A)taken pledges from your brother for no reason,
And stripped the naked of their clothing.

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You demanded security(A) from your relatives for no reason;(B)
    you stripped people of their clothing, leaving them naked.(C)

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You have sent widows away empty,
And the [a]strength of the fatherless was crushed.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 22:9 Lit. arms

And you sent widows(A) away empty-handed(B)
    and broke the strength of the fatherless.(C)

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