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Verse Deuteronomy 24:6. _THE NETHER OR THE UPPER MILL-STONE_] Small
hand-mills which can be worked by a single person were formerly in use
among the Jews, and are still used in many parts of the East...
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Compare Exodus 22:25....
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20. CONCERNING DIVORCE AND LAWS OF MERCY
CHAPTER 24
_ 1. Concerning divorce (Deuteronomy 24:1)_
2. Concerning pledge and slavery (Deuteronomy 24:6)
3. Concerning leprosy (Deuteronom
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XXIV. 6_ F_., 10- 13, which stood perhaps originally together, belong
to the many humanitarian laws of D (Deuteronomy 15:12 *). Corn is
still ground in the home in Palestine; this is done by the rotat...
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MILLSTONE. Hand-mills found in every house. Corn ground daily.
PLEDGE. Hebrew. _kabal =_ something tied up with. cord, hence the term
bond (= bound); compare Ex. Deuteronomy 22:26, transferred to the...
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Mill or Upper Millstone not to be taken in Pledge. This would be to
pledge _life_itself. Milling (as largely still in Palestine) was
mainly domestic, the first indispensable duty of the day; _the soun...
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Deuteronomy 24:5 to Deuteronomy 25:4. Thirteen Laws of Equity and
Humanity
Besides the humane temper common to most of them, and a few
cue-words, there are no apparent reasons for their being grouped...
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_VER._ 6. _NO MAN SHALL TAKE THE NETHER OR THE UPPER MILLSTONE TO
PLEDGE_— This law is of the same merciful kind with that in Exodus
22:26 which is repeated in the following verses; and it is founded...
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(8) MILLSTONES NOT TO BE TAKEN IN PLEDGE (Deuteronomy 24:6)
6 No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he
taketh _a man'S_ life to pledge.
THOUGHT QUESTIONS 24:6
412.
What...
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_NO MAN SHALL TAKE THE NETHER OR THE UPPER MILLSTONE TO PLEDGE: FOR HE
TAKETH A MAN'S LIFE TO PLEDGE._
No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone. The "upper"
stone, being concave, covers th...
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24:6 upper (c-9) i.e. the mobile stone; the lower part was fixed....
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On the nature of the Eastern hand-mill see on Exodus 11:5; Exodus
22:26; Exodus 22:27. The mill is an indispensable domestic utensil;
and, as neither of the stones is of any use without the other, to...
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LAWS REGARDING DIVORCE, PLEDGES, MAN-STEALING, LEPROSY, JUSTICE, AND
GLEANING
1-4. The Law of Divorce. The right of the husband to divorce his wife
is here acknowledged but is guarded against abuse....
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DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE
LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD
DEUTERONOMY
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 24
V1 ‘Suppose that a man marries a woman. Later, he decides that She
does not please him. He f...
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THE NETHER OR THE UPPER MILLSTONE. — Literally, _the two millstones,
or even the upper one._
A MAN’S LIFE. — Literally, _a soul._ This word connects the two
verses (6, 7)....
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לֹא ־יַחֲבֹ֥ל רֵחַ֖יִם וָ רָ֑כֶב כִּי
־נֶ֖פֶש
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LAWS OF KINDNESS
WITH the commands we now have to consider, we leave altogether the
region of strict law, and enter entirely upon that of aspiration and
of feeling. Kindness, by its very nature, elude...
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No man shall take the nether or the upper (d) millstone to pledge: for
he taketh [a man's] life to pledge.
(d) Not anything by which a man gets his living....
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Life, or the means of supporting himself. (Haydock) --- The upper
millstone was deemed the lest necessary. In more ancient times it was
customary to dry the wheat by fire, and afterwards to pound it i...
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This precept had much of mercy in it, because the nether, or upper
mill-stone, was daily needed to grind the borrower's food. But, do I
not see here a fence thrown up, to secure to a believer, his
inh...
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It is clear that a new division of the statutes and judgments of this
book begins with the later verses just read from Deuteronomy 16:1-22.
What belonged to the religious life of Israel was closed wit...
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Deuteronomy 24:6_No man shall take the nether_. God now enforces
another principle of equity in relation to loans, (not to be too
strict (107)) in requiring pledges, whereby the poor are often
exceedi...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 22, 23, 24, AND 25.
Chapter 22 appears to contain ordinances to guard the people from want
of benevolence and mercy, and of that which would offend the
sensib...
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NO MAN SHALL TAKE THE NETHER OR THE UPPER MILLSTONE TO PLEDGE,.... The
first word being of the dual number takes in both stones, wherefore
Vatablus renders the words,
"ye shall not take for a pledge...
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No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he
taketh [a man's] life to pledge.
Ver. 6. A man's life.] That is, his livelihood. A poor man in his
house is like a snail in his s...
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_Millstone_ Used in their hand-mills. Under this he understands all
other things necessary to get a livelihood, the taking away whereof is
against the laws both of charity and prudence, seeing by thos...
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1 Of diuorce.
5 A new maried man goeth not to warre. 6.10 Of pledges.
7 Of manstealers.
8 Of leprosie.
14 The hire is to be giuen.
16 Of Iustice.
19 Of Charitie.
1 WHEN [NOTE: Matthew 5:31; Matt...
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No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge, neither
the entire hand mill, with its lower, stationary stone, nor the upper,
movable stone, the grinder alone; FOR HE TAKETH A MAN'S LI...
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CHIEFLY OF DIVORCE, PLEDGES, AND LEPROSY...
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DIVORCE AND REMARRIAGE
(vs.1-4)
Under law there were cases such as often arise similarly at any time.
A man may marry a woman and afterwards be thoroughly dissatisfied with
her. This is a warning to...
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5-13 It is of great consequence that love be kept up between husband
and wife; that they carefully avoid every thing which might make them
strange one to another. Man-stealing was a capital crime, wh...
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THE NETHER OR THE UPPER MILLSTONE, used in their handmills; of which
see EXODUS 11:5 NUMBERS 11:8 JEREMIAH 25:10. Under this one kind he
understands all other things necessary to get a livelihood, the...
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The portion of our book on which we now enter, though not calling for
elaborate exposition, yet teaches us two very important practical
lessons In the first place, many of the institutions and ordinan...
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Deuteronomy 24:6 take H2254 lower H7347 millstone H7393 pledge H2254
(H8799) takes H2254 living H5315 pledge H225
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CONTENTS: Law concerning divorce; miscellaneous regulations.
CHARACTERS: God, Moses.
CONCLUSION: It is of great consequence that love be kept up between
husband and wife and that everything be caref...
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Deuteronomy 24:1. _Some uncleanness;_ not adultery, but leprosy,
secret infirmities, or insupportable wickedness. Moses, says our
Saviour; because of the hardness of your hearts, suffered you to put
a...
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_No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge._
THE LAW RESPECTING MILLSTONES
The Jewish law was important to that people as their national code.
Its enactments were wisely adapted t...
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DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 24:6 MILL OR AN UPPER MILLSTONE. If
these items were taken as security for a loan, it could deprive a poor
person of the ability to earn a living....
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CRITICAL _Notes_.—In this chapter certain duties social and domestic
are chosen to illustrate the general application of the law.
DEUTERONOMY 24:1. Relation of man and wife. Divorce. The verses are
hy...
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EXPOSITION
LAWS RESPECTING DIVORCE, AGAINST MAN-STEALING AND INJUSTICE.
DEUTERONOMY 24:1
_Of divorce_._ _If a man put away his wife because she did not any
longer please him, and she became the wife...
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Now,
When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass
that she finds no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some
uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorceme...
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Deuteronomy 20:19; Exodus 22:26; Exodus 22:27; Genesis 44:30; Luke
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Mill — stone — Used in their hand — mills. Under this, he
understands all other things necessary to get a livelihood, the taking
away whereof is against the laws both of charity and prudence, seeing
b...