Exodus 22:26
if you take the garment of your neighbor in pledge at all, you return it to him during the going in of the sun:
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Deuteronomy 24:10When you lift up a debt of anything on your brother, you do not go into his house to obtain his pledge;
Job 22:6For you take a pledge of your brother for nothing, || And you strip off the garments of the naked.
Job 24:9They take away violently || The orphan from the breast, || And they lay a pledge on the poor.
Psalms 10:14You have seen, || For You behold perverseness and anger; By giving into Your hand, || The afflicted leave [it] on You, || You have been a helper of the fatherless.
Proverbs 20:16When a stranger has been guarantor, take his garment, || And pledge it for strangers.
Ezekiel 18:7He does not oppress a man, || He returns his pledge to the debtor, || He does not take away plunder, || He gives his bread to the hungry, || And covers 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 →