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Hebrew Names Version

Deuteronomy 24:12

If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Creditor;   Debt;   Lending;   Pawn;   Pledge;   Poor;   Surety (Guarantee);   Thompson Chain Reference - Needy, the;   Poor, the;   Poverty-Riches;   Social Duties;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Beds;   Creditors;   Garments;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Loans;   Poor;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Lending;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Money;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Bed;   Loan;   Poor;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Law;   Loan;   Poor;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Banking;   Loan;   Pledge;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Leviticus;   Pledge;   Poverty;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Pledge;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Bed;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Debts;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Debt;   Deuteronomy;   Justice;   Pledge;   Poor;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
If he is a poor man, do not sleep with the garment he has given as security.
King James Version
And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
Lexham English Bible
And if he is a needy man, you shall not sleep in his pledge.
English Standard Version
And if he is a poor man, you shall not sleep in his pledge.
New Century Version
If a poor person gives you a coat to show he will pay the loan back, don't keep it overnight.
New English Translation
If the person is poor you may not use what he gives you as security for a covering.
Amplified Bible
"If the man is poor, you shall not keep his pledge overnight.
New American Standard Bible
"And if he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Furthermore if it be a poore body, thou shalt not sleepe with his pledge,
Legacy Standard Bible
Now if he is an afflicted man, you shall not sleep with his deposit.
Contemporary English Version
Suppose someone is so poor that a coat is the only thing that can be offered as a guarantee on a loan. Don't keep the coat overnight.
Complete Jewish Bible
If he is poor, you are not to go to bed with what he gave as collateral in your possession;
Darby Translation
And if the man be needy, thou shalt not lie down with his pledge;
Easy-to-Read Version
If he is a poor man, then he might give the clothes that keep him warm . You must not keep that security overnight.
George Lamsa Translation
And if the man is poor, you shall not sleep with his mantle.
Good News Translation
If he is poor, do not keep it overnight;
Literal Translation
And if the man is poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But yf it be a poore body, thou shalt not lye downe to slepe, with his pledge,
American Standard Version
And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge;
Bible in Basic English
If he is a poor man, do not keep his property all night;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Furthermore, if it be a poore body, thou shalt not sleepe with his pledge:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge;
King James Version (1611)
And if the man be poore, thou shalt not sleepe with his pledge:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
If thy neighbour owe thee a debt, any debt whatsoever, thou shalt not go into his house to take his pledge:
English Revised Version
And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
Berean Standard Bible
If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with the security in your possession;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sotheli if he is pore, the wed schal not dwelle bi nyyt at thee,
Young's Literal Translation
`And if he is a poor man, thou dost not lie down with his pledge;
Update Bible Version
And if he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;
Webster's Bible Translation
And if the man [is] poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
World English Bible
If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;
New King James Version
And if the man is poor, you shall not keep his pledge overnight.
New Living Translation
If your neighbor is poor and gives you his cloak as security for a loan, do not keep the cloak overnight.
New Life Bible
If he is a poor man, do not keep what he gives you through the night.
New Revised Standard
If the person is poor, you shall not sleep in the garment given you as the pledge.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep in his pledge:
Douay-Rheims Bible
But if he be poor, the pledge shall not lodge with thee that night,
Revised Standard Version
And if he is a poor man, you shall not sleep in his pledge;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.

Contextual Overview

5 When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken. 6 No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes [a man's] life to pledge. 7 If a man be found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Yisra'el, and he deal with him as a slave, or sell him; then that thief shall die: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you. 8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently, and do according to all that the Kohanim the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so you shall observe to do. 9 Remember what the LORD your God did to Miryam, by the way as you came forth out of Mitzrayim. 10 When you do lend your neighbor any manner of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge. 11 You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you do lend shall bring forth the pledge outside to you. 12 If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge; 13 you shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before the LORD your God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 24:17, Job 22:6, Job 24:3, Job 24:9

Reciprocal: Proverbs 3:28 - General Proverbs 25:20 - that taketh Ezekiel 18:7 - hath restored Amos 2:8 - laid

Cross-References

Genesis 15:1
After these things the word of the LORD came to Avram in a vision, saying, "Don't be afraid, Avram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward."
Genesis 24:7
The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, 'To your descendants I will give this land.' He will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
Genesis 24:8
If the woman isn't willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this my oath. Only you shall not bring my son there again."
Genesis 24:10
The servant took ten camels, of his master's camels, and departed, having all goodly things of his master's in his hand. He arose, and went to Aram-Naharayim, to the city of Nachor.
Genesis 24:11
He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.
Genesis 24:16
The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin, neither had any man known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up.
Genesis 24:17
The servant ran to meet her, and said, "Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher."
Genesis 24:27
He said, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Avraham, who has not forsaken his lovingkindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, the LORD has led me in the way to the house of my master's relatives."
Genesis 24:42
I came this day to the spring, and said, 'The LORD, the God of my master Avraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go.
Genesis 24:48
I bowed my head, and worshiped the LORD, and blessed the LORD, the God of my master Avraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter for his son.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And if the man [be] poor,.... Which may be thought to be the case of everyone that gives pledges for a debt he owes, or a sum of money he borrows; yet there might be a difference: some might be so very destitute of goods and raiment in their houses, that whatever they parted with was distressing to them, and they could not well do without it:

thou shalt not sleep with his pledge; nor keep it a night; but deliver it to him, before he went to bed, and laid himself down to sleep.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Exodus 22:25-27.

Deuteronomy 24:13

Righteousness unto thee - Compare Deuteronomy 6:25 note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 24:12. And if the man be poor, c. — Did not this law preclude pledging entirely, especially in case of the abjectly poor? For who would take a pledge in the morning which he knew, if not redeemed, he must restore at night? However, he might resume his claim in the morning, and have the pledge daily returned, and thus keep up his property in it till the debt was discharged Exodus 22:26; Exodus 22:26. The Jews in several cases did act contrary to this rule, and we find them cuttingly reproved for it by the Prophet Amos, Amos 2:8.


 
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