Deuteronomy 24:12
If your neighbor owe you a debt, any debt whatever, you shall not go into his house to take his pledge:
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
In Context
11Remember all that the Lord your God did to Mariam in the way, when you⌃ were going out of Egypt.
13you shall stand without, and the man who is in your debt shall bring the pledge out to you.
Cross References
Job 22:6And you have taken security of your brethren for nothing, and have taken away the clothing of the naked.
Job 24:7They have caused many naked to sleep without clothes, and they have taken away the covering of their body.
Job 24:10And they have wrongfully caused others to sleep without clothing, and taken away the morsel of the 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 →