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 Domain
ASVPD

“And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge;”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“`And if he is a poor man, thou dost not lie down with his pledge;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Deuteronomy 24:12 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Deuteronomy 24:17Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.
  2. Job 22:6For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.
  3. Job 24:3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
  4. Job 24:7Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.
  5. Job 24:9The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
  6. 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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