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Deuteronomy 24:12
12If your neighbor is poor and gives you his cloak as security for a loan, do not keep the cloak 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
10“If you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to pick up the item he is giving as security. 11You must wait outside while he goes in and brings it out to you. If your neighbor is poor and gives you his cloak as security for a loan, do not keep the cloak overnight. 13Return the cloak to its owner by sunset so he can stay warm through the night and bless you, and the Lord your God will count you as righteous. 14“Never take advantage of poor and destitute laborers, whether they are fellow Israelites or foreigners living in your towns.
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וְאִם־אִ֥ישׁ עָנִ֖י ה֑וּא לֹ֥א תִשְׁכַּ֖ב בַּעֲבֹטֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Deuteronomy 24:12
- Deuteronomy 24:17“True justice must be given to foreigners living among you and to orphans, and you must never accept a widow’s garment as security for her debt.
- Job 22:6“For example, you must have lent money to your friend and demanded clothing as security. Yes, you stripped him to the bone.
- Job 24:3They take the orphan’s donkey and demand 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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