Deuteronômio 24:6

6 Ninguém tomará em penhor as duas mós, nem mesmo a mó de cima, pois se penhoraria assim a vida.

Deuteronômio 24:6 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 24:6

No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge,
&c.] The first word being of the dual number takes in both stones, wherefore Vatablus renders the words,

``ye shall not take for a pledge both the millstones, nor indeed the uppermost;''

which is the least; so far should they be from taking both, that they were not allowed to take the uppermost, which was the shortest, meanest, and lightest; and indeed if anyone of them was taken, the other became useless, so that neither was to be taken:

for he taketh [a man's] life to pledge;
or with which his life is supported, and the life of his family; for if he has corn to supply them with, yet if his mill or millstones are pawned, he cannot grind his corn, and so he and his family must starve: and in those times and countries they did, as the Arabs do to this day, as Dr. Shaw ^F4 relates,

``most families grind their wheat and barley at home, having two portable millstones for that purpose; the uppermost whereof is turned round by a small handle of wood or iron, that is placed in the rim;''

and these millstones being portable, might be the more easily taken for pledges, which is here forbidden, for the above reason; and this takes in any other thing whatever, on which a man's living depends, or by which he gets his bread ^F5.

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 Travels, p. 231. Edit. 2.
F5 Misn. Bava Metzia, c. 9. sect. 13.

Deuteronômio 24:6 In-Context

4 então seu primeiro marido que a despedira, não poderá tornar a tomá-la por mulher, depois que foi contaminada; pois isso é abominação perante o Senhor. Não farás pecar a terra que o Senhor teu Deus te dá por herança.

5 Quando um homem for recém-casado não sairá � guerra, nem se lhe imporá cargo público; por um ano inteiro ficará livre na sua casa, para se regozijar com a sua mulher, que tomou.

6 Ninguém tomará em penhor as duas mós, nem mesmo a mó de cima, pois se penhoraria assim a vida.

7 Se for descoberto alguém que, havendo furtado um dentre os seus irmãos, dos filhos de Israel, e tenha escravizado, ou vendido, esse ladrão morrerá. Assim exterminarás o mal do meio de ti.

8 No tocante � praga da lepra, toma cuidado de observar diligentemente tudo o que te ensinarem os levitas sacerdotes; segundo lhes tenho ordenado, assim cuidarás de fazer.