[和合本] “不可拿人的全盘磨石，或是上磨石作当头，因为这是拿人的命作当头。
[新标点] “不可拿人的全盘磨石或是上磨石作当头，因为这是拿人的命作当头。
[和合修] “不可拿人的石磨或上面的磨石作抵押，因为这是拿人的命作抵押。
[新译本] “不可拿人的磨，或是上磨石作抵押，因为这等于拿人的生命作抵押。
[当代修] “不可拿别人的磨或磨的上盘作抵押品，因为这等于拿他们的生命作抵押。
[现代修] “不可拿债务人的磨石作抵押，因为这等于剥夺了他的生计。
[吕振中] “不可拿人的全盘磨石或是上磨石做当头，因为那是等于拿人的牲命做当头。
[思高本] 不可拿人的磨，或上面的一块磨石作抵押，因为这无异是拿人的性命作抵押。
[文理本] 毋取上下磨为质、盖质人之生命也、○
[GNT] "When you lend someone something, you are not to take as security his millstones used for grinding his grain. This would take away the family's means of preparing food to stay alive.
[BBE] No one is to take, on account of a debt, the stones with which grain is crushed: for in doing so he takes a man's living.
[KJV] No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.
[NKJV] " No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone in pledge, for he takes [one's] living in pledge.
[KJ21] "No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone in pledge, for then he taketh a man's life in pledge.
[NASB] (Various Laws) "No one shall seize a handmill or an upper millstone as a pledge for a loan, since he would be seizing the debtor's (Lit soul)means of life as a pledge.
[NRSV] No one shall take a mill or an upper millstone in pledge, for that would be taking a life in pledge.
[WEB] No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone as a pledge, for he takes a life in pledge.
[ESV] "No one shall take a mill or an upper millstone in pledge, for that would be taking a life in pledge.
[NIV] Do not take a pair of millstones--not even the upper one--as security for a debt, because that would be taking a man's livelihood as security.
[NIrV] Someone might borrow money from you and give you two millstones to keep until you are paid back. Don't keep them. Don't even keep the upper one. That person depends on the millstones to make a living.
[HCSB] "Do not take a pair of millstones or an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that is like taking a life as security.
[CSB] "Do not take a pair of millstones or an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that is like taking a life as security.
[AMP] No man shall take a mill or an upper millstone in pledge, for he would be taking a life in pledge.
[NLT] "It is wrong to take a set of millstones, or even just the upper millstone, as security for a loan, for the owner uses it to make a living.
[YLT] 'None doth take in pledge millstones, and rider, for life it [is] he is taking in pledge.