Parallel Verses
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:
New American Standard Bible
If you ever take your neighbor’s cloak
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:
Holman Bible
“If you ever take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him before sunset.
International Standard Version
If you take your neighbor's coat as collateral, you are to return it to him by sunset,
A Conservative Version
If thou at all take thy neighbor's garment to pledge, thou 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:
Amplified
If you ever take your [poor] neighbor’s robe in pledge, you must return it to him before sunset,
Darby Translation
If thou at all take thy neighbour's garment in pledge, thou shalt return it to him before the sun goes down;
Julia Smith Translation
If taking in pledge, thou shalt take in pledge the garment of thy friend, at the going down of the sun thou shalt turn it back to him.
King James 2000
If you at all take your neighbor's clothing as pledge, you shall deliver it unto him by the time the sun goes down:
Lexham Expanded Bible
If indeed you require the cloak of your neighbor as a pledge, you will return it to him at sundown,
Modern King James verseion
If you at all take your neighbor's clothing as a pledge, you shall deliver it to him by the time the sun goes down.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If thou take thy neighbor's raiment to pledge, see that thou deliver it unto him again by that the sun go down.
NET Bible
If you do take the garment of your neighbor in pledge, you must return it to him by the time the sun goes down,
New Heart English Bible
If you take your neighbor's garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,
The Emphasized Bible
If thou, do take in pledge, the mantle of thy neighbour, by the going in of the sun, shalt thou restore it to him;
Webster
If thou shalt at all take thy neighbor's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it to him by the setting of the sun.
World English Bible
If you take your neighbor's garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,
Youngs 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:
Themes
Beds » Of the poor covered with their upper garment
Business life » Debts » Pledges » Laws concerning
Credit system » Debts » Pledges » Laws concerning
Creditors » To return before sunset, garments taken in pledge
Dress » Not to be held overnight as a pledge for debt
Hyke or upper garment » Used by the poor as a covering by night
Interlinear
Chabal
Chabal
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Chabal
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Exodus 22:26
Verse Info
Context Readings
Regulations Regarding Foreigners And The Poor
25 If you let any of the poor among my people have the use of your money, do not be a hard creditor to him, and do not take interest. 26 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: 27 For it is the only thing he has for covering his skin; what is he to go to sleep in? and when his cry comes up to me, I will give ear, for my mercy is great.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 24:6
No one is to take, on account of a debt, the stones with which grain is crushed: for in doing so he takes a man's living.
Proverbs 20:16
Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.
Amos 2:8
By every altar they are stretched on clothing taken from those who are in their debt, drinking in the house of their god the wine of those who have made payment for wrongdoing.
Deuteronomy 24:10-13
If you let your brother have the use of anything which is yours, do not go into his house and take anything of his as a sign of his debt;
Deuteronomy 24:17
Be upright in judging the cause of the man from a strange country and of him who has no father; do not take a widow's clothing on account of a debt:
Job 24:3
They send away the ass of him who has no father, they take the widow's ox for debt.
Proverbs 22:27
If you have nothing with which to make payment, he will take away your bed from under you.
Ezekiel 18:7
And has done no wrong to any, but has given back to the debtor what is his, and has taken no one's goods by force, and has given food to him who was in need of it, and clothing to him who was without it;
Ezekiel 18:16
Or done wrong to any, or taken anything from one in his debt, or taken goods by force, but has given food to him who was in need of it, and clothing to him who was without it;
Job 22:6
For you have taken your brother's goods when he was not in your debt, and have taken away the clothing of those who have need of it.
Job 24:9
The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.
Ezekiel 33:15
If the evil-doer lets one who is in his debt have back what is his, and gives back what he had taken by force, and is guided by the rules of life, doing no evil; life will certainly be his, death will not overtake him.