Exodus 22:26
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,”
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“If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:”
King James Version · Public Domain“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 · Public Domain“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:”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Exodus 22:26 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 24:6Do not take a pair of millstones or even an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that would be taking one’s livelihood as security.
- Deuteronomy 24:10When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security.
- 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 24:9The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
- Job 34:28They caused the cry of the poor to come before Him, and He heard the outcry of the afflicted.
- Psalms 10:14But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.
- Psalms 34:7The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear Him, and he delivers them.
- Proverbs 20:16Take the garment of the one who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.
- Proverbs 22:27If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?
- Ezekiel 18:7He does not oppress another, but restores the pledge to the debtor. He does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.
- Ezekiel 18:16He does not oppress another, or retain a pledge, or commit robbery. He gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.
- Ezekiel 33:15if he restores a pledge, makes restitution for what he has stolen, and walks in the statutes of life without practicing iniquity—then he will surely live; he will not die.
- Amos 2:8They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.
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