“Do not take a pair of millstones or an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that is like taking a life as security.

“When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it in order to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can get food from them. You must not cut them down. Are trees of the field human, to come under siege by you?

“So if I come to your servant my father and the boy is not with us—his life is wrapped up with the boy’s life—

“If you ever take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him before sunset.

He then told them, “Watch out and be on guard against all greed because one’s life is not in the abundance of his possessions.”

The sound of harpists, musicians,
flutists, and trumpeters
will never be heard in you again;
no craftsman of any trade
will ever be found in you again;
the sound of a mill
will never be heard in you again;

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Summary

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

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Shall take

“If you ever take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him before sunset.
The sound of harpists, musicians,
flutists, and trumpeters
will never be heard in you again;
no craftsman of any trade
will ever be found in you again;
the sound of a mill
will never be heard in you again;

Life

“When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it in order to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can get food from them. You must not cut them down. Are trees of the field human, to come under siege by you?
“So if I come to your servant my father and the boy is not with us—his life is wrapped up with the boy’s life—
He then told them, “Watch out and be on guard against all greed because one’s life is not in the abundance of his possessions.”

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