Deuteronomy 24:10
When you require from your neighbor anything that he owes to you, you shall not enter into his house in order to take away the collateral.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
In Context
9Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam, along the way, as you were departing from Egypt.
11Instead, you shall stand outside, and he will carry out to you what he has.
Cross References
Exodus 22:26If you take a garment from your neighbor as a pledge, you shall return it to him again before the setting of the sun.
Deuteronomy 15:8Instead, you shall open your hand to the poor, and you shall lend to him whatever you perceive him to need.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 24:6-14
The Law of Divorce. ( b. c. 1451.) 5 When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken. 6 No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge. 7 If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away… Read the whole commentary →