Deuteronomy 24:12

God's Word

If the person is poor, don’t keep the coat you took as a deposit overnight.

Cross References

Job 22:6

For no reason you take your brothers’ goods as security for a loan and strip them of their clothes.

Job 24:10

⌞That is why⌟ the poor go around naked. They are hungry, yet they carry bundles of grain.

Job 24:3

They drive away the orphan’s donkey. They take the widow’s ox as security for a loan.

Job 24:7

All night they lie naked without a covering from the cold.

Job 24:9

“⌞People⌟ snatch the ⌞nursing⌟ orphan from a breast and take a poor woman’s baby as security for a loan.

Deuteronomy 24:11

Wait outside, and the person to whom you’re making the loan will bring the deposit out to you.

Deuteronomy 24:13

Make sure you bring it back to him at sunset. When he wears his coat to bed ⌞that night⌟, he’ll bless you. You will have done the right thing in the presence of the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 24:17

Never deprive foreigners and orphans of justice. And never take widows’ clothes to guarantee a loan.