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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26 (A)If you ever take your neighbor’s garment as a pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down.

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

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16 Has not oppressed anyone,
Nor withheld a pledge,
Nor robbed by violence,
But has given his bread to the hungry
And covered 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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12 If he has oppressed the poor and needy,
Robbed by violence,
Not restored the pledge,
Lifted his eyes to the idols,
Or (A)committed abomination;

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12 He oppresses the poor(A) and needy.
He commits robbery.
He does not return what he took in pledge.(B)
He looks to the idols.
He does detestable things.(C)

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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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10 “When you (A)lend your brother anything, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge. 11 You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring the pledge out to you. 12 And if the man is poor, you shall not [a]keep his pledge overnight. 13 (B)You shall in any case return the pledge to him again when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his own garment and (C)bless you; and (D)it shall be righteousness to you before the Lord your God.

14 “You shall not (E)oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether one of your brethren or one of the aliens who is in your land within your gates. 15 Each day (F)you shall give him his wages, and not let the sun go down on it, for he is poor and has set his heart on it; (G)lest he cry out against you to the Lord, and it be sin to you.

16 (H)“Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children be put to death for their fathers; a person shall be put to death for his own sin.

17 (I)“You shall not pervert justice due the stranger or the fatherless, (J)nor take a widow’s garment as a pledge. 18 But (K)you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you from there; therefore I command you to do this thing.

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Footnotes

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

10 When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, do not go into their house to get what is offered to you as a pledge.(A) 11 Stay outside and let the neighbor to whom you are making the loan bring the pledge out to you. 12 If the neighbor is poor, do not go to sleep with their pledge(B) in your possession. 13 Return their cloak by sunset(C) so that your neighbor may sleep in it.(D) Then they will thank you, and it will be regarded as a righteous act in the sight of the Lord your God.(E)

14 Do not take advantage of a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether that worker is a fellow Israelite or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.(F) 15 Pay them their wages each day before sunset, because they are poor(G) and are counting on it.(H) Otherwise they may cry to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin.(I)

16 Parents are not to be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.(J)

17 Do not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless(K) of justice,(L) or take the cloak of the widow as a pledge. 18 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt(M) and the Lord your God redeemed you from there. That is why I command you to do this.

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19 If I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing,
Or any poor man without covering;
20 If his [a]heart has not (A)blessed me,
And if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

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  1. Job 31:20 Lit. loins

19 if I have seen anyone perishing for lack of clothing,(A)
    or the needy(B) without garments,
20 and their hearts did not bless me(C)
    for warming them with the fleece(D) from my sheep,

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Some snatch the fatherless from the breast,
And take a pledge from the poor.
10 They cause the poor to go naked, without (A)clothing;
And they take away the sheaves from the hungry.

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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)
10 Lacking clothes, they go about naked;(E)
    they carry the sheaves,(F) but still go hungry.

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“No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone in pledge, for he takes [a]one’s living in pledge.

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  1. Deuteronomy 24:6 life

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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They lie down (A)by every altar on clothes (B)taken in pledge,
And drink the wine of [a]the condemned in the house of their god.

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  1. Amos 2:8 Or those punished by fines

They lie down beside every altar
    on garments taken in pledge.(A)
In the house of their god
    they drink wine(B) taken as fines.(C)

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If he has not (A)oppressed anyone,
But has restored to the debtor his (B)pledge;
Has robbed no one by violence,
But has (C)given his bread to the hungry
And covered the naked with (D)clothing;

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He does not oppress(A) anyone,
    but returns what he took in pledge(B) for a loan.
He does not commit robbery(C)
    but gives his food to the hungry(D)
    and provides clothing for the naked.(E)

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