Ulangan 24:6
Konteks24:6 One must not take either lower or upper millstones as security on a loan, for that is like taking a life itself as security. 1
Ulangan 24:12-13
Konteks24:12 If the person is poor you may not use what he gives you as security for a covering. 2 24:13 You must by all means 3 return to him at sunset the item he gave you as security so that he may sleep in his outer garment and bless you for it; it will be considered a just 4 deed by the Lord your God.
[24:6] 1 sn Taking millstones as security on a loan would amount to taking the owner’s own life in pledge, since the millstones were the owner’s means of earning a living and supporting his family.
[24:12] 2 tn Heb “may not lie down in his pledge.” What is in view is the use of clothing as guarantee for the repayment of loans, a matter already addressed elsewhere (Deut 23:19-20; 24:6; cf. Exod 22:25-26; Lev 25:35-37). Cf. NAB “you shall not sleep in the mantle he gives as a pledge”; NRSV “in the garment given you as the pledge.”
[24:13] 3 tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation seeks to reflect with “by all means.”