Exodus 22:26
If you at all take your neighbour's raiment to pledge, you shall deliver it unto him by that the sun goes down:
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Deuteronomy 24:10When you do lend your brother any thing, you shall not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
Job 22:6For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
Job 24:9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
Psalms 10:14You have seen it; for you behold mischief and spite, to requite it with your hand: the poor commits himself unto you; you are the helper of the fatherless.
Proverbs 20:16Take his garment that is guarantor for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
Ezekiel 18:7And has not oppressed any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has spoiled none 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 →