'Collateral' in the Bible
If you take your neighbor's coat as collateral, you are to return it to him by sunset,
"Don't take a pair of millstones, especially the upper millstone, as collateral for a loan, because this means taking a man's livelihood.
"When you loan something to your neighbor, don't enter his house to seize what he offered as collateral.
If he is a poor man, don't go to sleep with his collateral in your possession.
"Don't deny justice to a foreigner or to an orphan, nor take a widow's garment as collateral for a loan.
Offer, then, some collateral on my behalf. Is there anyone who will be my guarantor?
"After all, you've taken collateral from your relatives for no reason; you stripped the naked of their clothing.
Take the garment of anyone who puts up collateral for a stranger; hold it in pledge if he does it for an unfamiliar woman.
returning what has been placed as collateral for a loan, paying back what he has taken, following the regulations that promote life, and committing no iniquity, he will certainly live, and not die.
They lay down beside every altar, on garments pledged as collateral, drinking wine paid for through fines imposed by the temple of their gods.