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Deuteronomy 24 General Notes
Structure and formatting
This chapter continues the teaching about how to maintain justice in Israel. (See: rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/justice)
Special concepts in this chapter
"No man may take a mill or an upper millstone as a pledge"
A millstone was the way a person made a living. To take a person's millstone was to take take away the way they earned money and produced food. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit)
Lending money
Lending money to fellow Israelites was a way to help them out. It was not intended to be a way to make money off their brothers. This chapter gives limitations regarding the lending of money.