Deuteronomy 24:6

No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge ; rather, the hand mill and the upper millstone (literally, the rider ) shall not be taken (literally, one shall not take ) in pledge . Neither the mill itself nor the upper millstone, the removal of which would render the mill useless, was to be taken. The upper millstone is still called the rider by the Arabs (Hebrew reehebh , Arabic rekkab ). F or he taketh a man's life to pledge ; or for (thereby) life itself is pledged ; if a man were deprived of that by which food for the sustaining of life could be prepared, his life itself would be imperiled (cf. Job 22:6 ; Proverbs 22:27 ; Amos 2:8 ).