Exodus 22:26 “If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by s…”

Exodus 22:26

If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:

World English Bible

If you take your neighbor’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,

American Standard Version

If thou at all take thy neighbor’s garment to pledge, thou shalt restore it unto him before the sun goeth down:

Geneva Bible 1599

If thou take thy neighbours rayment to pledge, thou shalt restore it vnto him before the sunne go downe:

Darby Translation

— If thou at all take thy neighbour's garment in pledge, thou shalt return it to him before the sun goes down;

Young's Literal Translation

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:

Bible in Basic English

If ever you take your neighbour's clothing in exchange for the use of your money, let him have it back before the sun goes down:

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Cross references

“to pledge”

Proverbs 20:16 Amos 2:8 Deuteronomy 24:6 Deuteronomy 24:10–13 Deuteronomy 24:17 Job 24:3

Proverbs 20:16 · BSB

Take the garment of the one who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.

Amos 2:8 · BSB

They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.

Deuteronomy 24:6 · BSB

Do 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 24:10–13 · BSB

When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security.

Deuteronomy 24:17 · BSB

Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.

Job 24:3 · BSB

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

25If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.

27because his cloak is the only covering he has for his body. What else will he sleep in? And if he cries out to Me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.

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