If ever you take your neighbor's cloak in pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down,
Take a man's garment when he has put up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for foreigners.
they lay themselves down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge, and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.
“No one shall take a mill or an upper millstone in pledge, for that would be taking a life in pledge.
does not oppress anyone, exacts no pledge, commits no robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,
does not oppress anyone, but restores to the debtor his pledge, commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,
If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
“You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow's garment in pledge,
“When you make your neighbor a loan of any sort, you shall not go into his house to collect his pledge. You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you make the loan shall bring the pledge out to you. And if he is a poor man, you shall not sleep in his pledge. You shall restore to him the pledge as the sun sets, that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you. And it shall be righteousness for you before the Lord your God.
if the wicked restores the pledge, gives back what he has taken by robbery, and walks in the statutes of life, not doing injustice, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
(There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and they take a pledge against the poor.)
For you have exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing and stripped the naked of their clothing.
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