NIV: 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.
NAS: "No one shall take a handmill or an upper millstone in pledge, for he would be taking a life in pledge.
KJV: No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.
GWT: Never let a family's handmill for grinding flour-or even part of a handmill-be taken to guarantee a loan. The family wouldn't be able to prepare food in order to stay alive.
ASV: No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh a man's life to pledge.
BBE: No one is to take, on account of a debt, the stones with which grain is crushed: for in doing so he takes a man's living.
DBY: No man shall take the hand-mill or the upper millstone in pledge; for it would be taking life in pledge.
DRB: Thou shalt not take the nether, nor the upper millstone to pledge: for he hath pledged his life to thee.
WBS: No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone for a pledge: for he taketh a man's life for a pledge.
WEB: No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes [a man's] life to pledge.
YLT: None doth take in pledge millstones, and rider, for life it is he is taking in pledge.
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