◄ Exodus 22:26 ►
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Good News Translation
If you take someone's cloak as a pledge that he will pay you, you must give it back to him before the sun sets,

New Revised Standard Version
If you take your neighbor’s cloak in pawn, you shall restore it before the sun goes down;

Contemporary English Version
Before sunset you must return any coat taken as security for a loan,

New American Bible
If you take your neighbor’s cloak as a pledge, you shall return it to him before sunset;

Douay-Rheims Bible
If thou take of thy neighbour a garment in pledge, thou shalt give it him again before sunset.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If thou take of thy neighbour a garment in pledge, thou shalt give it him again before sunset.

to pledge

Deuteronomy 24:6,10-13,17 Thou shalt not take the nether, nor the upper millstone to pledge: for he hath pledged his life to thee. . . .

Job 22:6 For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy brethren without cause, and stripped them naked of their clothing.

Job 24:3,9 They have driven away the ass of the fatherless, and have taken away the widow's ox for a pledge. . . .

Proverbs 20:16 Take away the garment of him that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from him for strangers.

Proverbs 22:27 For if thou have not wherewith to restore, what cause is there that he should take the covering from thy bed?

Ezekiel 18:7,16 And hath not wronged any man: but hath restored the pledge to the debtor, hath taken nothing away by violence: hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment: . . .

Ezekiel 33:15 And if that wicked man restore the pledge, and render what he had robbed, and walk in the commandments of life, and do no unjust thing: he shall surely live, and shall not die.

Amos 2:8 And they sat down upon garments laid to pledge by every altar: and drank the wine of the condemned in the house of their God.

Context
Laws of Social Responsibility
…25If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor, that dwelleth with thee, thou shalt not be hard upon them as an extortioner, nor oppress them with usuries. 26If thou take of thy neighbour a garment in pledge, thou shalt give it him again before sunset.27For that same is the only thing, wherewith he is covered, the clothing of his body, neither hath he any other to sleep in: if he cry to me, I will hear him, because I am compassionate.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 24:6
Thou shalt not take the nether, nor the upper millstone to pledge: for he hath pledged his life to thee.

Deuteronomy 24:10
When thou shalt demand of thy neighbour any thing that he oweth thee, thou shalt not go into his house to take away a pledge:

Deuteronomy 24:13
But thou shalt restore it to him presently before the going down of the sun: that he may sleep in his own raiment and bless thee, and thou mayst have justice before the Lord thy God.

Job 22:6
For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy brethren without cause, and stripped them naked of their clothing.

Job 24:3
They have driven away the ass of the fatherless, and have taken away the widow's ox for a pledge.

Job 24:7
They send men away naked, taking away their clothes who have no covering in the cold:

Proverbs 20:16
Take away the garment of him that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from him for strangers.

Proverbs 22:27
For if thou have not wherewith to restore, what cause is there that he should take the covering from thy bed?

Amos 2:8
And they sat down upon garments laid to pledge by every altar: and drank the wine of the condemned in the house of their God.

Exodus 22:25
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