Deuteronomy 24:12

New International Reader's Version

The neighbor might be poor. You might be given their coat to keep until you get paid back. Don’t go to sleep while you still have it.

Cross References

Job 22:6

You took clothes away from your relatives just because they owed you some money. You left them naked for no reason at all.

Job 24:10

The poor don’t have any clothes. They go around naked. They carry bundles of grain, but they still go hungry.

Job 24:3

They take away the donkeys that belong to children whose fathers have died. They take a widow’s ox until she has paid what she owes.

Job 24:7

The poor don’t have any clothes. So they spend the night naked. They don’t have anything to cover themselves in the cold.

Job 24:9

Children whose fathers have died are torn away from their mothers. A poor person’s baby is taken away to pay back what is owed.

Deuteronomy 24:11

Stay outside. Let the neighbor bring it out to you.

Deuteronomy 24:13

Return it before the sun goes down. They need it to sleep in and will thank you for returning it. The Lord your God will see it and know that you have done the right thing.

Deuteronomy 24:17

Do what is right and fair for outsiders and for children whose fathers have died. Suppose a widow borrows something from you. And she offers to give you her coat until she pays you back. Don’t take it.