Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Creditors » Often exacted debts » From the sureties
Do not give pledges and be guarantors for debts. If you have nothing to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?
He that is surety for a stranger will suffer. He that hates being surety is sure.
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Debt » Security for
You have indeed exacted pledges from your family for no reason, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
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Do not give pledges and be guarantors for debts.
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Do not take a hand mill or an upper millstone as security for a debt. That would be taking away a man's livelihood.
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They lie down beside every altar on clothes taken from indebtedness. In the house of their God they drink the wine they have confiscated.
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There are those who snatch the orphan child from the breast. They take as a pledge the infant of the poor.
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When you lend money to any of my people who are poor, do not act like a moneylender and require him to pay interest. If you take someone's cloak as a pledge that he will pay you, you must give it back to him before the sunsets, for it is the only covering he has to keep him warm. What else can he sleep in? When he cries out to me for help, I will answer him because I am merciful.
When you make your neighbor a loan of any sort do not go into his house and repossess the security. Remain outside, and the man to whom you make the loan must bring the pledged security out to you. If he is a poor man, do not keep the pledged security over night. read more.
Return the pledge to him before the sun goes down. He will have his pledged item and he may sleep. He will bless you. And it will be righteousness for you before Jehovah your God.
Return the pledge to him before the sun goes down. He will have his pledged item and he may sleep. He will bless you. And it will be righteousness for you before Jehovah your God.
He that is surety for a stranger will suffer. He that hates being surety is sure.
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There were some who said: We are giving our fields and our vine-gardens and our houses for debt. Let us get grain because we are in need. Yet others said: We have given up our fields and our vine-gardens to get money for the king's taxes.
Surety » Who is sure
He who walks righteously and speaks what is right, who rejects gain from extortion and keeps his hand from accepting bribes, who stops his ears against plots of murder and shuts his eyes against contemplating evil. This man will dwell on the heights. His refuge will be the mountain fortress. His bread will be supplied, and he will have water.
He that is surety for a stranger will suffer. He that hates being surety is sure.
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Surety » Those that are surety for a stranger
He that is surety for a stranger will suffer. He that hates being surety is sure.
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Surety » Those that hate suretyship
He that is surety for a stranger will suffer. He that hates being surety is sure.
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