Deuteronomy 24:12
10 When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security.
11 You are to stand outside while the man to whom you are lending brings the security out to you.
If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with the security in your possession;
13 be sure to return it to him by sunset, so that he may sleep in his own cloak and bless you, and this will be credited to you as righteousness before the LORD your God.
14 Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with the security in your possession;
- KJV
- And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
- WEB
- If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.
- ASV
- And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge;
- DARBY
- And if the man be needy, thou shalt not lie down with his pledge;
- BLB
- And if the man is poor, you shall not lie asleep with his pledge.
- ÅB
- Og dersom det er en fattig mann, så skal du ikke legge deg til å sove med hans pant;
- OTB
- Hvis personen er fattig, må du ikke sove med pantet i din besittelse.
- B1930
- Og dersom det er en fattig mann, så skal du ikke legge dig til å sove med hans pant;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Deuteronomy 24:17
Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.
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