“No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man’s life to pledge.”
No one shall take a mill or an upper millstone in pledge, for that would be taking a life in pledge — the millstones are not luxury goods but means of subsistence (grinding grain for daily bread). Seizing them strips a family of its livelihood; the law recognizes that taking life's necessities is equivalent to taking life itself.
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