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12 If the person is poor, you shall not sleep in the garment given you as[a] the pledge.

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  1. 24.12 Heb lacks the garment given you as

17 “You shall not deprive a resident alien or an orphan of justice; you shall not take a widow’s garment in pledge.(A)

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“There are those who snatch the orphan child from the breast
    and take as a pledge the infant of the poor.(A)

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They drive away the donkey of the orphan;
    they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.(A)

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For you have exacted pledges from your family for no reason
    and stripped the naked of their clothing.(A)

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