* shall take.
   Small hand-mills, which ground at one time only a sufficient
   quantity for a day's consumption; hence they were forbidden to
   take either of the stones to pledge, because if they did, they
   would be deprived of the means of preparing their necessary
   food, and the family be without bread.  On this account they
   are called in the text, a man's life.  The same reason holds
   good against receiving in pledge, or distraining for debt, any
   instrument of labour, by which men earn their livelihood.
 
  Ex 22:26,27  Re 18:22 
 * life.
  20:19  Ge 44:30  Lu 12:15