Deuteronomy 24:12
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with the security in your possession;”
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BSBPD
“If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with the security in your possession;”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge;”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“`And if he is a poor man, thou dost not lie down with his pledge;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Deuteronomy 24:12 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 24:17Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.
- Job 22:6For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.
- Job 24:3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
- Job 24:7Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.
- Job 24:9The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
- Job 24:10Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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