Deuteronomy 24:12
If he is a poor man he may give his cloak as security, but you must not keep it when you go to sleep.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
In Context
11Stand outside while they go inside and bring the security out to you.
Cross References
Job 22:6For no reason at all you took your brother's clothing as a security for a debt, and left them stripped naked.
Job 24:7They spend the night naked because they have no clothes; they have nothing to cover themselves against the cold.
Job 24:10Because they have no clothes to wear they have to go naked, harvesting sheaves of grain while they themselves are hungry.
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 →