Exodus 22:26

God's Word

If you take any of your neighbor’s clothes as collateral, give it back to him by sunset.

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 24:3

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.

Job 34:28

They forced the poor to cry out to him, and he hears the cry of those who suffer.

Psalm 10:14

You have seen ⌞it⌟; yes, you have taken note of trouble and grief and placed them under your control. The victim entrusts himself to you. You alone have been the helper of orphans.

Psalm 34:7

The Messenger of the Lord camps around those who fear him, and he rescues them.

Proverbs 20:16

Hold on to the garment of one who guarantees a stranger’s loan, and hold responsible the person who makes a loan on behalf of a foreigner.

Proverbs 22:27

If you have no money to pay back a loan, why should your bed be repossessed?

Ezekiel 18:16

He doesn’t oppress anyone. He doesn’t keep the security for a loan. He doesn’t rob anyone. He gives food to people who are hungry, and he gives clothes to those who are naked.

Ezekiel 18:7

He doesn’t oppress anyone. He returns what a borrower gives him as security for a loan. He doesn’t rob anyone. He gives food to people who are hungry, and he gives clothes to those who are naked.

Ezekiel 33:15

He returns the security for a loan, pays back everything he stole, lives by the rules of life, and does nothing evil. Then he will certainly live. He will not die.

Amos 2:8

Beside every altar, they spread themselves out on clothes taken as security. In the temples of their gods, they drink the wine that they bought with fines.

Deuteronomy 24:17

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

Deuteronomy 24:6

Never let a family’s handmill for grinding flour—or even part of a handmill—be taken to guarantee a loan. The family wouldn’t be able to prepare food in order to stay alive.