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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26 If you take your neighbor’s cloak as a pledge,(A) return it by sunset,

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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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Do not take a pair of millstones—not even the upper one—as security for a debt, because that would be taking a person’s livelihood as security.(A)

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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

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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“They drive away the donkeys of the (A)orphans;
They take the (B)widow’s ox for 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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[a]Others snatch the (A)orphan from the breast,
And against the poor they take a pledge.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 24:9 Lit They

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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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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16 He does not oppress anyone
    or require a pledge for a loan.
He does not commit robbery
    but gives his food to the hungry(A)
    and provides clothing for the naked.(B)

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