26 If you ever take your neighbor’s cloak (A)as a pledge, you are to return it to him before the sun sets,

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Sundry Laws

“No one shall take a handmill or an upper millstone in pledge, for he would be taking a life in pledge.

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17 (A)You shall not pervert the justice [a]due an alien or [b]an orphan, nor (B)take a widow’s garment in pledge.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 24:17 Lit of
  2. Deuteronomy 24:17 Or the fatherless

“They drive away the donkeys of the (A)orphans;
They take the (B)widow’s ox for a pledge.

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[a]Others snatch the (A)orphan from the breast,
And against the poor they take a pledge.

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  1. Job 24:9 Lit They

16 or oppress anyone, or retain a pledge, or commit robbery, but he (A)gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing,

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