KJV King James Version
If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
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Exodus 22:26
If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,
WEB World English Bible
If you take your neighbor’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,
ASV American Standard Version
If thou at all take thy neighbor’s garment to pledge, thou shalt restore it unto him before the sun goeth down:
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
if thou dost at all take in pledge the garment of thy neighbour, during the going in of the sun thou dost return it to him:
Surrounding context — Exodus 22
23 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;
24 And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
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 shalt not delay [to offer] the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.
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Proverbs 20:16Take his garment that is surety [for] a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.Amos 2:8And they lay [themselves] down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned [in] the house of their god.Deuteronomy 24:6No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh [a man’s] life to pledge.Ezekiel 18:7And hath not oppressed any, [but] hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;Job 24:3They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.Ezekiel 18:16Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, [but] hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment,Deuteronomy 24:17Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, [nor] of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:Deuteronomy 24:10-13When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.Proverbs 22:27If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?Ezekiel 33:15[If] the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.Job 22:6For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.Job 24:9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
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