Exodus 22:26

If you take a garment from your neighbor as a pledge, you shall return it to him again before the setting of the sun.

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In The King James Version

If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:

In Context

25If you lend money to the poor of my people who live among you, you shall not coerce them like a collector, nor oppress them with usury.

27For it is all that he has to cover himself, to clothe his body; nor does he have anything else in which to sleep. If he cries out to me, I will hear him, because I am compassionate.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 24:10When 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.

Job 22:6For you have taken away the collateral of your brothers without cause, and stripped them naked of their clothing.

Job 24:9They have used violence to deprive orphans, and they have robbed the poor common people.

Proverbs 20:16Take away the vestments of him who stands up to vouch for a stranger, and take a pledge from him instead of from outsiders.

Ezekiel 18:7and if he has not grieved any man, but has restored the collateral to the debtor, if he has seized nothing by violence, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment,

Matthew Henry on Exodus 22:26-31

25 If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury. 26 If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down: 27 For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious. 28 Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people. 29 Thou… Read the whole commentary →

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