God’s Word Translation
Deuteronomy 24:12
12If the person is poor, don’t keep the coat you took as a deposit overnight.
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
10When you make a loan to your neighbor, don’t go into his house to take a security deposit. 11Wait outside, and the person to whom you’re making the loan will bring the deposit out to you. If the person is poor, don’t keep the coat you took as a deposit overnight. 13Make sure you bring it back to him at sunset. When he wears his coat to bed ⌞that night⌟, he’ll bless you. You will have done the right thing in the presence of the Lord your God. 14Don’t withhold pay from hired workers who are poor and needy, whether they are Israelites or foreigners living in one of your cities.
Read all of Deuteronomy 24Deuteronomy 24:12 word by word
וְאִם־אִ֥ישׁ עָנִ֖י ה֑וּא לֹ֥א תִשְׁכַּ֖ב בַּעֲבֹטֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Deuteronomy 24:12
- Deuteronomy 24:17Never deprive foreigners and orphans of justice. And never take widows’ clothes to guarantee a loan.
- Job 22:6For no reason you take your brothers’ goods as security for a loan and strip them of their clothes.
- Job 24:3They drive away the orphan’s donkey. They take the widow’s ox as security for a loan.
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
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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
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