Deuteronomy 24:12

Deuteronomy 24:12 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
• New International Version (NIV)If the neighbor is poor, do not go to sleep with their pledge in your possession.
• English Standard Version (ESV)And if he is a poor man, you shall not sleep in his pledge.
• New King James Version (NKJV)And if the man is poor, you shall not keep his pledge overnight.

Context of Deuteronomy 24:12

10“When you lend your neighbor anything, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge (security deposit). 11You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring the pledge out to you. If the man is poor, you shall not keep his pledge overnight. 13You shall certainly restore the pledge (security deposit) to him at sunset, so that he may sleep in his garment and bless you; and it will be credited to you as righteousness (right standing) before the Lord your God. 14“You shall not take advantage of a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether [he is] one of your countrymen or one of the strangers (resident aliens, foreigners) who is in your land inside your cities.

Deuteronomy 24:12 word by word

וְאִם־אִ֥ישׁ עָנִ֖י ה֑וּא לֹ֥א תִשְׁכַּ֖ב בַּעֲבֹטֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And if the manאִישׁ'îysh · manH376
• poorעָנִי‛ânîy · afflictedH6041
• thou shalt not sleepשָׁכַבshâkab · to lie down: sleepH7901
• with his pledgeעֲבוֹט‛ăbôţ ‛ăbôţ · pledgeH5667

Cross-references for Deuteronomy 24:12

• Deuteronomy 24:17“You shall not pervert the justice due a stranger or an orphan, nor seize (impound) a widow’s garment as security [for a loan].
• Job 22:6For you have taken pledges of your brothers without cause, And stripped men naked.
• Job 24:3They drive away the donkeys of the orphans; They take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

Commentaries on Deuteronomy 24:12

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12And if the man be poor, etc. - Did not this law preclude pledging entirely, especially in case of the abjectly poor? For who would take a pledge in the morning which he knew, if not redeemed, he must restore at night? However, he might resume his claim in the morning, and have the pledge daily returned, and thus keep up his property in it till the debt was discharged; see the note on Exodus 22:26. The Jews in several cases did act contrary to this rule…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10-13Verses 10-13 Compare Exodus 22:25-27. Deuteronomy 24:13 Righteousness unto thee - Compare Deuteronomy 6:25 note.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 5-13Verses 5-13 It is of great consequence that love be kept up between husband and wife; that they carefully avoid every thing which might make them strange one to another. Man-stealing was a capital crime, which could not be settled, as other thefts, by restitution. The laws concerning leprosy must be carefully observed. Thus all who feel their consciences under guilt and wrath, must not cover it, or endeavour to shake off their convictions; but by…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 10-1310-13. When thou dost lend thy brother anything, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge--The course recommended was, in kind and considerate regard, to spare the borrower's feelings. In the case of a poor man who had pledged his cloak, it was to be restored before night, as the poor in Eastern countries have commonly no other covering for wrapping themselves in when they go to sleep than the garment they have worn during the day.Read the comment

Topics related to Deuteronomy 24:12

• Creditor
• Debt
• Lending
• Pawn
• Pledge
• Poor
• Surety (Guarantee)

In the dictionaries

• Bed
• Divorcement
• Former
• Loan
• Poor
• Atonement, Day of
• Criticism
• Debt; Debtor
• Deuteronomy
• Exodus, the Book of

Commentaries on Deuteronomy 24

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings