Deuteronomy 24:12

Modern English Version

If the man is poor, you may not sleep with his pledge.

Cross References

Job 22:6

For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

Job 24:10

They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry.

Job 24:3

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

Job 24:7

They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, and they have no covering in the cold.

Job 24:9

They snatch the fatherless from the breast and take a pledge from the poor.

Deuteronomy 24:11

You must stand outside, and the man to whom you lend must bring the pledge outside to you.

Deuteronomy 24:13

In any case, you must return the pledge to him when the sun goes down, so that he may sleep in his own cloak and bless you, and it will be righteousness to you before the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 24:17

You must not pervert the justice of the foreigner or of the fatherless, nor take a widow’s cloak as a pledge.