Exodus 22:26

KJV1611 – Modern English

If you take your neighbor's garment as a pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֣י הִ֤וא *כסותה **כְסוּתוֹ֙ לְבַדָּ֔הּ הִ֥וא שִׂמְלָת֖וֹ לְעֹר֑וֹ בַּמֶּ֣ה יִשְׁכָּ֔ב וְהָיָה֙ כִּֽי־יִצְעַ֣ק אֵלַ֔י וְשָׁמַעְתִּ֖י כִּֽי־חַנּ֥וּן אָֽנִי׃

Transliteration

For it hîʾ kĕsûtô lĕbaddāh, it hîʾ śimlātô lĕʿōrô; in what yiškāb? And wĕhāyâ when yiṣʿaq to me, and wĕšāmaʿtî because ḥannûn I ʾānî.

Grammar Details

• *hîʾ*: 3rd feminine singular pronoun, 'it/she'
• *kĕsûtô*: feminine singular noun with 3rd masculine singular suffix, 'his covering'
• *lĕbaddāh*: preposition + masculine singular noun with 3rd feminine singular suffix, 'for itself alone'
• *śimlātô*: feminine singular noun with 3rd masculine singular suffix, 'his garment'
• *lĕʿōrô*: preposition + masculine singular noun with 3rd masculine singular suffix, 'for his skin'
• *yiškāb*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular, 'he shall lie down'
• *wĕhāyâ*: qal perfect with waw consecutive, 3rd masculine singular, 'and it shall be'
• *yiṣʿaq*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular, 'he cries'
• *wĕšāmaʿtî*: qal perfect with waw consecutive, 1st common singular, 'and I will hear'
• *ḥannûn*: adjective, masculine singular, 'gracious'
• *ʾānî*: 1st common singular pronoun, 'I'

Word Meanings

• *kĕsûtô*: his covering/his only covering
• *śimlātô lĕʿōrô*: his garment for his skin/his clothing for his body
• *ḥannûn*: gracious/compassionate/merciful

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  For it is his only covering, the cloak for his body. What else can he sleep in? If he cries out to me, I will hear him, for I am gracious.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  If thou at all take thy neighbor's garment to pledge, thou shalt restore it unto him before the sun goeth down:

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  Yf thou take thi neghbours raymet to pledge, se that thou delyuer it vnto him agayne by that the sonne goo doune.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Yf thou take a garment of thy neghboure to pledge, thou shalt geue it him agayne before the Sonne go downe:

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  If thou take thy neighbours rayment to pledge, thou shalt restore it vnto him before the sunne go downe:

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  If thou take thy neyghbours rayment to pledge, thou shalt deliuer it vnto him by that the sunne go downe.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  If you take your neighbor's garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  if thou dost at all take in pledge the garment of thy neighbour, during the going in of the sun thou dost return it to him:

• American Standard Version (1901)

  If thou at all take thy neighbor's garment to pledge, thou shalt restore it unto him before the sun goeth down:

• American Standard Version (1901)

  If thou at all take thy neighbor's garment to pledge, thou shalt restore it unto him before the sun goeth down:

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  If ever you take your neighbour's clothing in exchange for the use of your money, let him have it back before the sun goes down:

• World English Bible (2000)

  If you take your neighbor's garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  If you do take the garment of your neighbor in pledge, you must return it to him by the time the sun goes down,

Referenced Verses

• Amos 2:8 : 8 They lie down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
• Deut 24:6 : 6 No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone as a pledge: for he takes a man's life as a pledge.
• Prov 20:16 : 16 Take his garment who is surety for a stranger, and hold it in pledge for a foreign woman.
• Prov 22:27 : 27 If you have nothing to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?
• Ezek 18:7 : 7 And has not oppressed anyone, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has spoiled none by violence, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment,
• Ezek 18:16 : 16 Nor has oppressed anyone, has not withheld the pledge, nor spoiled by violence, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment,
• Deut 24:10-13 : 10 When you lend your brother anything, you shall not go into his house to fetch his pledge. 11 You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring out the pledge to you. 12 And if the man is poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge: 13 In any case you shall return the pledge to him when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his own clothing, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before the LORD your God.
• Deut 24:17 : 17 You shall not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's clothing as a pledge:
• Job 24:3 : 3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
• Job 24:9 : 9 They snatch the fatherless from the breast and take a pledge from the poor.
• Job 22:6 : 6 For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
• Ezek 33:15 : 15 If the wicked restores the pledge, gives back what he has stolen, walks in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.