Job 22:6
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6 For you have exacted pledges from your family for no reason
and stripped the naked of their clothing.(A)
Exodus 22:26
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26 If you take your neighbor’s cloak as guarantee, you shall restore it before the sun goes down,
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Ezekiel 18:16
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16 does not wrong anyone, exacts no pledge, commits no robbery but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,(A)
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Ezekiel 18:12
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12 oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore the pledge, lifts up his eyes to the idols, commits abomination,(A)
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Job 24:3
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3 They drive away the donkey of the orphan;
they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.(A)
Deuteronomy 24:10-18
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10 “When you make your neighbor a loan of any kind, you shall not go into the house to take the pledge. 11 You shall wait outside while the person to whom you are making the loan brings the pledge out to you. 12 If the person is poor, you shall not sleep in the garment given you as[a] the pledge. 13 You shall give the pledge back by sunset, so that your neighbor may sleep in the cloak and bless you, and it will be to your credit before the Lord your God.(A)
14 “You shall not withhold the wages of poor and needy laborers, whether other Israelites or aliens who reside in your land in one of your towns.(B) 15 You shall pay them their wages daily before sunset, because they are poor and their livelihood depends on them; otherwise they might cry to the Lord against you, and you would incur guilt.(C)
16 “Parents shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children be put to death for their parents; only for their own crimes may persons be put to death.(D)
17 “You shall not deprive a resident alien or an orphan of justice; you shall not take a widow’s garment in pledge.(E) 18 Remember that you were a slave in Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you from there; therefore I command you to do this.(F)
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- 24.12 Heb lacks the garment given you as
Job 31:19-20
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19 if I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing
or a poor person without covering,
20 whose loins have not blessed me,
and who was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;(A)
Job 24:9-10
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9 “There are those who snatch the orphan child from the breast
and take as a pledge the infant of the poor.(A)
10 They go about naked, without clothing;
though hungry, they carry the sheaves;
Deuteronomy 24:6
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6 “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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Amos 2:8
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8 they lay themselves down beside every altar
on garments taken in pledge;
and in the house of their God they drink
wine bought with fines they imposed.(A)
Ezekiel 18:7
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7 does not oppress anyone but restores to the debtor his pledge, commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,(A)
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