Deuteronomy 24:12
Modern Translations
New International Version
If the neighbor is poor, do not go to sleep with their pledge in your possession.

New Living Translation
If your neighbor is poor and gives you his cloak as security for a loan, do not keep the cloak overnight.

English Standard Version
And if he is a poor man, you shall not sleep in his pledge.

Berean Study Bible
If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with the security in your possession;

New American Standard Bible
And if he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.

NASB 1995
"If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.

NASB 1977
“And if he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.

Amplified Bible
If the man is poor, you shall not keep his pledge overnight.

Christian Standard Bible
If he is a poor man, do not sleep with the garment he has given as security.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If he is a poor man, you must not sleep in the garment he has given as security.

Contemporary English Version
Suppose someone is so poor that a coat is the only thing that can be offered as a guarantee on a loan. Don't keep the coat overnight.

Good News Translation
If he is poor, do not keep it overnight;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
If the person is poor, don't keep the coat you took as a deposit overnight.

International Standard Version
If he is a poor man, don't go to sleep with his collateral in your possession.

NET Bible
If the person is poor you may not use what he gives you as security for a covering.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:

New King James Version
And if the man is poor, you shall not keep his pledge overnight.

King James 2000 Bible
And if the man be poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge:

New Heart English Bible
If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;

World English Bible
If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;

American King James Version
And if the man be poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge:

American Standard Version
And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge;

A Faithful Version
And if the man is poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge.

Darby Bible Translation
And if the man be needy, thou shalt not lie down with his pledge;

English Revised Version
And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:

Webster's Bible Translation
And if the man is poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Furthermore if it be a poore body, thou shalt not sleepe with his pledge,

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Furthermore, if it be a poore body, thou shalt not sleepe with his pledge:

Coverdale Bible of 1535
But yf it be a poore body, thou shalt not lye downe to slepe, with his pledge,

Tyndale Bible of 1526
Forthermore yf it be a pore body, goo not to slepe with his pledge:
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And if he is a poor man, you do not lie down with his pledge;

Young's Literal Translation
'And if he is a poor man, thou dost not lie down with his pledge;

Smith's Literal Translation
And if the man be poor, he shall not sleep with his pledge.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
But if he be poor, the pledge shall not lodge with thee that night,

Catholic Public Domain Version
But if he is poor, then the collateral shall not remain with you through the night.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And if the man is poor you shall not sleep with his cloak:

Lamsa Bible
And if the man is poor, you shall not sleep with his mantle.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge;

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge.
















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