26 If you ever seize your neighbor’s cloak (A)as a pledge, you are to return it to him before the sun sets,

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Various Laws

“No one shall seize a handmill or an upper millstone as a pledge for a loan, since he would be seizing the debtor’s [a]means of life as a pledge.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 24:6 Lit soul

17 (A)You shall not pervert the justice [a]due a stranger or [b]an orphan, nor (B)seize a widow’s garment as a [c]pledge.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 24:17 Lit of
  2. Deuteronomy 24:17 Or the fatherless
  3. Deuteronomy 24:17 I.e., for a loan

They drive away the donkeys of (A)orphans;
They seize the (B)widow’s ox as a pledge.

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Others snatch an (A)orphan from the breast,
And they seize it as a pledge against the poor.

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16 nor oppressed anyone, nor retained a pledge, nor committed robbery; instead, he (A)gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing,

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