Deuteronomy 24:14
And if the man be poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
13you shall stand without, and the man who is in your debt shall bring the pledge out to you.
Cross References
Leviticus 25:35And if your brother who is with you become poor, and he fail in resources with you, you shall help him as a stranger and a sojourner, and your brother shall live with you.
Job 24:10And they have wrongfully caused others to sleep without clothing, and taken away the morsel of the hungry.
Proverbs 14:31He that oppresses the needy provokes his Maker: but he that honors him has pity upon the poor.
Ezekiel 22:7In you they have reviled father and mother; and in you they have behaved unjustly toward the stranger: they have oppressed the orphan and widow.
Amos 4:1Hear you⌃ this word, you⌃ heifers of the land of Basan that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, and trample on the needy, which say to their masters, Give us that we may drink.
Malachi 3:5And I will draw near to you in judgment; and I will be a sift witness against the witches, and against the adulteresses, and against them that swear falsely by my name, and against them that keep back the hireling's wages, and them that oppress the widow, and + 3:5 Gr. beat with the fist. afflict orphans, and that wrest the judgment of the stranger, and fear not me, says the Lord Almighty.
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 →