For you have (A)exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing
    (B)and stripped the naked of their clothing.

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26 (A)If ever you take your neighbor's cloak in pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down,

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16 does not oppress anyone, (A)exacts no pledge, (B)commits no robbery, (C)but gives his bread to the hungry (D)and covers the naked with a garment,

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12 oppresses the poor and needy, (A)commits robbery, (B)does not restore the pledge, (C)lifts up his eyes to the idols, (D)commits abomination,

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

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10 “When you make your neighbor a loan of any sort, you shall not go into his house to collect his pledge. 11 You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you make the loan shall bring the pledge out to you. 12 And if he is a poor man, you shall not sleep in his pledge. 13 (A)You shall restore to him the pledge as the sun sets, that he may sleep in his cloak and (B)bless you. And (C)it shall be righteousness for you before the Lord your God.

14 “You shall not (D)oppress a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the sojourners who are in your land within your towns. 15 (E)You shall give him his wages on the same day, before the sun sets (for he is poor and counts on it), (F)lest he cry against you to the Lord, and you be guilty of sin.

16 (G)“Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one shall be put to death for his own sin.

17 (H)“You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, (I)or take a widow's garment in pledge, 18 but (J)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.

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19 if I have seen anyone (A)perish for (B)lack of clothing,
    or the needy without (C)covering,
20 if his body has not (D)blessed me,[a]
    and if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep,

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Footnotes

  1. Job 31:20 Hebrew if his loins have not blessed me

(There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast,
    and they take a pledge against the poor.)
10 They go about naked, without clothing;
    hungry, they (A)carry the sheaves;

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

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they lay themselves down beside every altar
    on garments (A)taken in pledge,
and in the house of their God they drink
    the wine of those who have been fined.

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(A)does not oppress anyone, but (B)restores to the debtor his pledge, (C)commits no robbery, (D)gives his bread to the hungry (E)and covers the naked with a garment,

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