12 And if the man is poor, you shall not [a]keep his pledge overnight.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 24:12 Lit. sleep with his pledge

12 If the neighbor is poor, do not go to sleep with their pledge(A) in your possession.

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17 (A)“You shall not pervert justice due the stranger or the fatherless, (B)nor take a widow’s garment as a pledge.

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17 Do not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless(A) of justice,(B) or take the cloak of the widow as a pledge.

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Some snatch the fatherless from the breast,
And take a pledge from the poor.

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The fatherless(A) child is snatched(B) from the breast;
    the infant of the poor is seized(C) for a debt.(D)

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They drive away the donkey of the fatherless;
They (A)take the widow’s ox as a pledge.

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They drive away the orphan’s donkey
    and take the widow’s ox in pledge.(A)

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For you have (A)taken pledges from your brother for no reason,
And stripped the naked of their clothing.

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You demanded security(A) from your relatives for no reason;(B)
    you stripped people of their clothing, leaving them naked.(C)

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