KJV King James Version
Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.
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Deuteronomy 24:11
Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
You are to stand outside while the man to whom you are lending brings the security out to you.
WEB World English Bible
You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you do lend shall bring forth the pledge outside to you.
ASV American Standard Version
Thou shalt stand without, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring forth the pledge without unto thee.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
at the outside thou dost stand, and the man on whom thou art lifting it up is bringing out unto thee the pledge at the outside.
Surrounding context — Deuteronomy 24
8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, [so] ye shall observe to do.
9 Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt.
10 When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
11 Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.
12 And if the man [be] poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
13 In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.
14 Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant [that is] poor and needy, [whether he be] of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that [are] in thy land within thy gates:
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
בַּח֖וּץH2351 · chutsoutsideתַּעֲמֹ֑דH5975 · a.madto stand: standוְהָאִ֗ישׁH376 · ishmanאֲשֶׁ֤רH834 · a.sherwhichאַתָּה֙H859 · at.tahyou(m.s.)נֹשֶׁ֣הH5383 · na.shahto lendב֔וֹH9033 · ohimיוֹצִ֥יאH3318 · ya.tsato come out: comeאֵלֶ֛יךָH413 · elto(wards)אֶֽת־H853 · et[Obj.]הַעֲב֖וֹטH5667 · a.votpledgeהַחֽוּצָה׃H2351 · chutsoutside
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