Parallel Verses
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 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,
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:
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.
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
Rea`
Chabal
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Exodus 22:26
Verse Info
Context Readings
Regulations Regarding Foreigners And The Poor
25 "If you lend money to any of my people who are needy among you, do not be like a moneylender to him; do not charge him interest. 26 If you do take the garment of your neighbor in pledge, you must return it to him by the time the sun goes down, 27 for it is his only covering -- it is his garment for his body. What else can he sleep in? And when he cries out to me, I will hear, for I am gracious.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 24:6
One must not take either lower or upper millstones as security on a loan, for that is like taking a life itself as security.
Proverbs 20:16
Take a man's garment when he has given security for a stranger, and when he gives surety for strangers, hold him in pledge.
Amos 2:8
They stretch out on clothing seized as collateral; they do so right beside every altar! They drink wine bought with the fines they have levied; they do so right in the temple of their God!
Deuteronomy 24:10-13
When you make any kind of loan to your neighbor, you may not go into his house to claim what he is offering as security.
Deuteronomy 24:17
You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow's garment as security for a loan.
Job 24:3
They drive away the orphan's donkey; they take the widow's ox as a pledge.
Proverbs 22:27
If you do not have enough to pay, your bed will be taken right out from under you!
Ezekiel 18:7
does not oppress anyone, but gives the debtor back whatever was given in pledge, does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and clothes the naked,
Ezekiel 18:16
does not oppress anyone or keep what has been given in pledge, does not commit robbery, gives his food to the hungry, and clothes the naked,
Job 22:6
"For you took pledges from your brothers for no reason, and you stripped the clothing from the naked.
Job 24:9
The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.
Ezekiel 33:15
He returns what was taken in pledge, pays back what he has stolen, and follows the statutes that give life, committing no iniquity. He will certainly live -- he will not die.