Exodus 22:26
If you ever take your [poor] neighbor’s robe in pledge, you must return it to him before sunset,
Deuteronomy 24:6
“No one shall take a handmill or an upper millstone [used to grind grain into bread] as security [for a debt], for he would be taking a [person’s] life in pledge.
Proverbs 20:16
[The judge tells the creditor], “Take the clothes of one who is surety for a stranger;
And hold him in pledge [when he guarantees a loan] for foreigners.”
Amos 2:8
“They stretch out beside every [pagan] altar on clothes taken in pledge [to secure a loan, disregarding God’s command],
And in the house of their God [in contempt of Him] they frivolously drink the wine [which has been] taken from those who have been fined.
Deuteronomy 24:10-13
“When you lend your neighbor anything, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge (security deposit).
Deuteronomy 24:17
“You shall not pervert the justice due a stranger or an orphan, nor seize (impound) a widow’s garment as security [for a loan].
Job 24:3
“They drive away the donkeys of the orphans;
They take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
Proverbs 22:27
If you have nothing with which to pay [another’s debt when he defaults],
Why should his creditor take your bed from under you?
Ezekiel 18:7
if a man does not oppress anyone, but restores to the debtor his pledge, does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing,
Ezekiel 18:16
or oppress anyone, or take anything in pledge, or commit robbery, but he gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing,
Job 22:6
“For you have taken pledges of your brothers without cause,
And stripped men naked.
Job 24:9
“Others snatch the fatherless [infants] from the breast [to sell or make them slaves],
And against the poor they take a pledge [of clothing].
Ezekiel 33:15
if a wicked man returns [what he took as] a pledge, pays back what he had taken by robbery, walks in the statutes which ensure life, without committing injustice, he will certainly live; he will not die.
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To pledge
General references
Bible References
To pledge
“For you have taken pledges of your brothers without cause,
And stripped men naked.
“They drive away the donkeys of the orphans;
They take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
[The judge tells the creditor], “Take the clothes of one who is surety for a stranger;
And hold him in pledge [when he guarantees a loan] for foreigners.”
If you have nothing with which to pay [another’s debt when he defaults],
Why should his creditor take your bed from under you?
“They stretch out beside every [pagan] altar on clothes taken in pledge [to secure a loan, disregarding God’s command],
And in the house of their God [in contempt of Him] they frivolously drink the wine [which has been] taken from those who have been fined.
General references
If you have nothing with which to pay [another’s debt when he defaults],
Why should his creditor take your bed from under you?
[The judge tells the creditor,] “Take the garment of one who is surety (guarantees a loan) for a stranger;
And hold him in pledge when he is surety for an immoral woman [for it is unlikely the debt will be repaid].”