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The donkeys of orphans they drive away;
    they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

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Pledges and Kidnappings. [a]No one shall take a hand mill or even its upper stone as a pledge for debt, for that would be taking as a pledge the debtor’s life.

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Footnotes

  1. 24:6 Since the Israelites ground their grain into flour only in sufficient quantity for their current need, to deprive a debtor of his hand mill was equivalent to condemning him to starvation.

Rights of the Unprotected. 17 (A)You shall not deprive the resident alien or the orphan of justice, nor take the clothing of a widow as pledge.

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12 oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not give back a pledge, raises his eyes to idols, does abominable things,

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16 who does not oppress anyone, or exact a pledge, or commit robbery; who gives his food to the hungry and clothes the naked;(A)

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