“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

10 “When you (A)lend your brother anything, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge. 11 You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring the pledge out to you. 12 And if the man is poor, you shall not [a]keep his pledge overnight. 13 (B)You shall in any case return the pledge to him again when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his own garment and (C)bless you; and (D)it shall be righteousness to you before the Lord your God.

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

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless;
They (A)take the widow’s ox as a pledge.

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16 (A)Take the garment of one who is surety for a stranger,
And hold it as a pledge when it is for a seductress.

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They lie down (A)by every altar on clothes (B)taken in pledge,
And drink the wine of [a]the condemned in the house of their god.

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  1. Amos 2:8 Or those punished by fines

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