Translations
No one shall take a handmill or its upper stone as a pledge — to do so is to take someone's very livelihood as collateral, to hold their life itself in your hands.
No one shall take a handmill or an upper millstone as a pledge — for to seize the mill is to seize a life.
No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.
Do not take a pair of millstones or even an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that would be taking one’s livelihood as security.

