26 (A)If you ever take your neighbor’s garment as a pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down.

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26 If you take your neighbor’s cloak as a pledge,(A) return it by sunset,

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27 For that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What will he sleep in? And it will be that when he cries to Me, I will hear, for I am (A)gracious.

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27 because that cloak is the only covering your neighbor has. What else can they sleep in?(A) When they cry out to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.(B)

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12 And if the man is poor, you shall not [a]keep his pledge overnight.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 24:12 Lit. sleep with his pledge

12 If the neighbor is poor, do not go to sleep with their pledge(A) in your possession.

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13 (A)You shall in any case return the pledge to him again when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his own garment and (B)bless you; and (C)it shall be righteousness to you before the Lord your God.

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13 Return their cloak by sunset(A) so that your neighbor may sleep in it.(B) Then they will thank you, and it will be regarded as a righteous act in the sight of the Lord your God.(C)

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For you have (A)taken pledges from your brother for no reason,
And stripped the naked of their clothing.

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You demanded security(A) from your relatives for no reason;(B)
    you stripped people of their clothing, leaving them naked.(C)

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15 (A)If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food,

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15 Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food.(A)

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16 and (A)one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit?

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16 If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it?(A)

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