Thematic Bible
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Business life » Debts » Pledges » Laws concerning
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.
Business life » The credit system » Creditors, general references to
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.
Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared the LORD. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves."
Credit system » Debts » Pledges » Laws concerning
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.
Credit system » Creditors, general references to
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.
Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared the LORD. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves."
Creditor » Laws concerning
You shall not deprive the foreigner, or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow's clothing in pledge;
Give to him who asks you, and do not turn away him who desires to borrow from you.
No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes a life in pledge.
"If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything. If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him. If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. read more.
But if the servant shall plainly say, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;' then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.
But if the servant shall plainly say, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;' then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.
"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.
"'If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another. According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor. According to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you. According to the length of the years you shall increase its price, and according to the shortness of the years you shall diminish its price; for he is selling the number of the crops to you. read more.
You shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am the LORD your God.
You shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am the LORD your God.
"'If your brother has become poor, and his hand can't support him among you; then you shall uphold him. As a stranger and a sojourner he shall live with you. Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God; that your brother may live among you. You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.
This is the way of the release: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother; because the LORD's release has been proclaimed. Of a foreigner you may exact it: but whatever of your is with your brother your hand shall release.
You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent on interest: to a foreigner you may lend on interest; but to your brother you shall not lend on interest, that the LORD your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.
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.
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.
If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much.
Creditors » Prohibited from » Taking millstones in pledge
No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes a life in pledge.
Debt » Security for
For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
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.
There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
"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.
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.
Mill » Upper and lower stones of
No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes a life in pledge.
Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.
Mills » Stones used in » Not to be taken in pledge
No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes a life in pledge.
Millstone » Not to be taken as a pledge
No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes a life in pledge.