Deuteronomy 24:12
If the person is poor you may not use what he gives you as security for a covering.
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Referenced Verses
- Deut 24:17 : 17 You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow’s garment as security for a loan.
- Job 22:6 : 6 “For you took pledges from your brothers for no reason, and you stripped the clothing from the naked.
- Job 24:3 : 3 They drive away the orphan’s donkey; they take the widow’s ox as a pledge.
- Job 24:9 : 9 The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.
Similar Verses (AI)
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- Deut 24:13-153 verses90%
13You must by all means return to him at sunset the item he gave you as security so that he may sleep in his outer garment and bless you for it; it will be considered a just deed by the LORD your God.
14You must not oppress a lowly and poor servant, whether one from among your fellow Israelites or from the resident foreigners who are living in your land and villages.
15You must pay his wage that very day before the sun sets, for he is poor and his life depends on it. Otherwise he will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
- Deut 24:10-112 verses87%
10When you make any kind of loan to your neighbor, you may not go into his house to claim what he is offering as security.
11You must stand outside and the person to whom you are making the loan will bring out to you what he is offering as security.
- Exod 22:25-273 verses85%
25“If you lend money to any of my people who are needy among you, do not be like a moneylender to him; do not charge him interest.
26If you do take the garment of your neighbor in pledge, you must return it to him by the time the sun goes down,
27for it is his only covering– it is his garment for his body. What else can he sleep in? And when he cries out to me, I will hear, for I am gracious.
- Prov 22:26-272 verses80%
26Do not be one who strikes hands in pledge or who puts up security for debts.
27If you do not have enough to pay, your bed will be taken right out from under you!
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17You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow’s garment as security for a loan.
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6One must not take either lower or upper millstones as security on a loan, for that is like taking a life itself as security.
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13Take a man’s garment when he has given security for a stranger, and hold him in pledge on behalf of a stranger.
- Job 22:6-72 verses77%
6“For you took pledges from your brothers for no reason, and you stripped the clothing from the naked.
7You gave the weary no water to drink and from the hungry you withheld food.
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16Take a man’s garment when he has given security for a stranger, and hold him in pledge on behalf of strangers.
- Lev 25:35-373 verses75%
35Debt and Slave Regulations“‘If your brother becomes impoverished and is indebted to you, you must support him; he must live with you like a foreign resident.
36Do not take interest or profit from him, but you must fear your God and your brother must live with you.
37You must not lend him your money at interest and you must not sell him food for profit.
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6“You must not turn away justice for your poor people in their lawsuits.
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7does not oppress anyone, but gives the debtor back whatever was given in pledge, does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and clothes the naked,
- Exod 22:14-152 verses74%
14“If a man borrows an animal from his neighbor, and it is hurt or dies when its owner was not with it, the man who borrowed it will surely pay.
15If its owner was with it, he will not have to pay; if it was hired, what was paid for the hire covers it.
- Deut 15:7-115 verses74%
7The Spirit of Liberality If a fellow Israelite from one of your villages in the land that the LORD your God is giving you should be poor, you must not harden your heart or be insensitive to his impoverished condition.
8Instead, you must be sure to open your hand to him and generously lend him whatever he needs.
9Be careful lest you entertain the wicked thought that the seventh year, the year of cancellation of debts, has almost arrived, and your attitude be wrong toward your impoverished fellow Israelite and you do not lend him anything; he will cry out to the LORD against you and you will be regarded as having sinned.
10You must by all means lend to him and not be upset by doing it, for because of this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you attempt.
11There will never cease to be some poor people in the land; therefore, I am commanding you to make sure you open your hand to your fellow Israelites who are needy and poor in your land.
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13You must not oppress your neighbor or commit robbery against him. You must not withhold the wages of the hired laborer overnight until morning.
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17The one who is gracious to the poor lends to the LORD, and the LORD will repay him for his good deed.
- Exod 22:10-123 verses73%
10If a man gives his neighbor a donkey or an ox or a sheep or any beast to keep, and it dies or is injured or is carried away without anyone seeing it,
11then there will be an oath to the LORD between the two of them, that he has not laid his hand on his neighbor’s goods, and its owner will accept this, and he will not have to pay.
12But if it was stolen from him, he will pay its owner.
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3and you must not show partiality to a poor man in his lawsuit.
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16does not oppress anyone or keep what has been given in pledge, does not commit robbery, gives his food to the hungry, and clothes the naked,
- Deut 23:19-202 verses72%
19Respect for Others’ Property You must not charge interest on a loan to your fellow Israelite, whether on money, food, or anything else that has been loaned with interest.
20You may lend with interest to a foreigner, but not to your fellow Israelite; if you keep this command the LORD your God will bless you in all you undertake in the land you are about to enter to possess.
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39“‘If your brother becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service.
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3If the sun has risen on him, then there is blood guilt for him. A thief must surely make full restitution; if he has nothing, then he will be sold for his theft.
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22Do not exploit a poor person because he is poor and do not crush the needy in court,
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7“If a man gives his neighbor money or articles for safekeeping, and it is stolen from the man’s house, if the thief is caught, he must repay double.
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26If a man has no redeemer, but he prospers and gains enough for its redemption,
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9The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.
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27As for the Levites in your villages, you must not ignore them, for they have no allotment or inheritance along with you.
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3They drive away the orphan’s donkey; they take the widow’s ox as a pledge.
- Deut 15:2-32 verses71%
2This is the nature of the cancellation: Every creditor must remit what he has loaned to another person; he must not force payment from his fellow Israelite, for it is to be recognized as“the LORD’s cancellation of debts.”
3You may exact payment from a foreigner, but whatever your fellow Israelite owes you, you must remit.
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12oppresses the poor and the needy, commits robbery, does not give back what was given in pledge, prays to idols, performs abominable acts,
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14If you make a sale to your fellow citizen or buy from your fellow citizen, no one is to wrong his brother.
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28If he has not prospered enough to refund a balance to him, then what he sold will belong to the one who bought it until the jubilee year, but it must revert in the jubilee and the original owner may return to his property.