Deuteronomy 24:6
No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone as a pledge, for he takes a life in pledge.
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- Deuteronomy 20:19 When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them; for you may eat of them. You shall not cut them down, for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged by you?
- Luke 12:15 He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”
- Genesis 44:30 Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy’s life;