Thematic Bible




Thematic Bible



For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

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

No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes a life in pledge.

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.


For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

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

No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes a life in pledge.

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.


For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

Do not be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts.

No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes a life in pledge.

and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.


"If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you charge him interest. If you take your neighbor's garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down, for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.

When you do lend your neighbor any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge. You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you do lend shall bring forth the pledge outside to you. If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge; read more.
you shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before the LORD your God.

He who is collateral for a stranger will suffer for it, but he who refuses pledges of collateral is secure.

Some also there were that said, "We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine." There were also some who said, "We have borrowed money for the king's tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.