* shall take.
Small hand-mills, which ground at one time only a sufficient
quantity for a day's consumption; hence they were forbidden to
take either of the stones to pledge, because if they did, they
would be deprived of the means of preparing their necessary
food, and the family be without bread. On this account they
are called in the text, a man's life. The same reason holds
good against receiving in pledge, or distraining for debt, any
instrument of labour, by which men earn their livelihood.
Ex 22:26,27 Re 18:22
* life.
20:19 Ge 44:30 Lu 12:15
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