Job 22:6
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6 For you have (A)taken pledges from your brother for no reason,
And stripped the naked of their clothing.
Exodus 22:26
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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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Ezekiel 18:16
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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;
Ezekiel 18:12
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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;
Job 24:3
New King James Version
3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless;
They (A)take the widow’s ox as a pledge.
Deuteronomy 24:10-18
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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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- Deuteronomy 24:12 Lit. sleep with his pledge
Job 31:19-20
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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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- Job 31:20 Lit. loins
Job 24:9-10
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9 “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.
Deuteronomy 24:6
New King James Version
6 “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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- Deuteronomy 24:6 life
Amos 2:8
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8 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.
Footnotes
- Amos 2:8 Or those punished by fines
Ezekiel 18:7
New King James Version
7 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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