Deuteronomy 24:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² If the person is poor, you shall not sleep in the garment given you as the pledge.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² And if the man is poor, you shall not keep his pledge overnight.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge;

Common English Bible

¹² Moreover, if the person is poor, you are not allowed to sleep in their pawned coat.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² But if he is poor, then the collateral shall not remain with you through the night.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² But if he be poor, the pledge shall not lodge with thee that night,

Deuteronomy 24:12 Cross References

Job 22:6

For you have exacted pledges from your family for no reason and stripped the naked of their clothing.

Job 24:10

They go about naked, without clothing; though hungry, they carry the sheaves;

Job 24:3

They drive away the donkey of the orphan; they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

Job 24:7

They lie all night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

Job 24:9

“There are those who snatch the orphan child from the breast and take as a pledge the infant of the poor.

Deuteronomy 24:11

You shall wait outside while the person to whom you are making the loan brings the pledge out to you.

Deuteronomy 24:13

You shall give the pledge back by sunset, so that your neighbor may sleep in the cloak and bless you, and it will be to your credit before the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 24:17

“You shall not deprive a resident alien or an orphan of justice; you shall not take a widow’s garment in pledge.