Deuteronomy 24:12

King James Version

And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
And if he is a poor man, you shall not sleep in his pledge.

Update Bible Version
And if he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;

English Revised Version
And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with 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.

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;

Amplified Bible
"If the man is poor, you shall not keep his pledge overnight.

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;

Berean Standard Bible
If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with the security in your possession;

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.

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:

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.

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:

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:

Geneva Bible (1587)
Furthermore if it be a poore body, thou shalt not sleepe with his pledge,

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;

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;

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:

Christian Standard Bible®
If he is a poor man, do not sleep with the garment he has given as security.

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

Lexham English Bible
And if he is a needy man, you shall not sleep in his pledge.

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,

New American Standard Bible
"And if he is 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 American Standard Bible (1995)
"If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.

Legacy Standard Bible
Now if he is an afflicted man, you shall not sleep with his deposit.

Contextual Overview

⁵ When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken. ⁶ No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge. ⁷ If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you. ⁸ Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do. ⁹ Remember what the Lord thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt. ¹⁰ When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge. ¹¹ Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee. ¹² And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge: ¹³ In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the Lord thy 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 unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.

Genesis 24:7
The Lord God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.

Genesis 24:8
And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son thither again.

Genesis 24:10
And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.

Genesis 24:11
And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.

Genesis 24:16
And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.

Genesis 24:17
And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.

Genesis 24:27
And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in the way, the Lord led me to the house of my master's brethren.

Genesis 24:42
And I came this day unto the well, and said, O Lord God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go:

Genesis 24:48
And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the Lord , and blessed the Lord God of my master Abraham, which had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter unto 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.