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?

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.”

Exodus 22:26-27

If you ever take your [poor] neighbor’s robe in pledge, you must return it to him before sunset,

2 Kings 4:1

Now one of the wives of a man of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha [for help], saying “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant [reverently] feared the Lord; but the creditor is coming to take my two sons to be his slaves [in payment for a loan].”

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