Deuteronomy 24:12

Complete Jewish Bible

If he is poor, you are not to go to bed with what he gave as collateral in your possession;

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
If he is a poor man, do not sleep with the garment he has given as security.

Hebrew Names Version
If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;

King James Version
And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:

Lexham English Bible
And if he is a needy man, you shall not sleep in his pledge.

English Standard Version
And if he is a poor man, you shall not sleep in his pledge.

New Century Version
If a poor person gives you a coat to show he will pay the loan back, don't keep it overnight.

New English Translation
If the person is poor you may not use what he gives you as security for a covering.

Amplified Bible
"If the man is poor, you shall not keep his pledge overnight.

New American Standard Bible
"And if he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Furthermore if it be a poore body, thou shalt not sleepe with his pledge,

Legacy Standard Bible
Now if he is an afflicted man, you shall not sleep with his deposit.

Contemporary English Version
Suppose someone is so poor that a coat is the only thing that can be offered as a guarantee on a loan. Don't keep the coat overnight.

Darby Translation
And if the man be needy, thou shalt not lie down with his pledge;

Easy-to-Read Version
If he is a poor man, then he might give the clothes that keep him warm . You must not keep that security overnight.

George Lamsa Translation
And if the man is poor, you shall not sleep with his mantle.

Good News Translation
If he is poor, do not keep it overnight;

Literal Translation
And if the man is poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But yf it be a poore body, thou shalt not lye downe to slepe, with his pledge,

American Standard Version
And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge;

Bible in Basic English
If he is a poor man, do not keep his property all night;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Furthermore, if it be a poore body, thou shalt not sleepe with his pledge:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge;

King James Version (1611)
And if the man be poore, thou shalt not sleepe with his pledge:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
If thy neighbour owe thee a debt, any debt whatsoever, thou shalt not go into his house to take his pledge:

English Revised Version
And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:

Berean Standard Bible
If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with the security in your possession;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sotheli if he is pore, the wed schal not dwelle bi nyyt at thee,

Young's Literal Translation
`And if he is a poor man, thou dost not lie down with his pledge;

Update Bible Version
And if he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;

Webster's Bible Translation
And if the man [is] poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:

World English Bible
If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;

New King James Version
And if the man is poor, you shall not keep his pledge overnight.

New Living Translation
If your neighbor is poor and gives you his cloak as security for a loan, do not keep the cloak overnight.

New Life Bible
If he is a poor man, do not keep what he gives you through the night.

New Revised Standard
If the person is poor, you shall not sleep in the garment given you as the pledge.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep in his pledge:

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if he be poor, the pledge shall not lodge with thee that night,

Revised Standard Version
And if he is a poor man, you shall not sleep in his pledge;

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.

Contextual Overview

⁵ (vi) "If a man has recently married his wife, he is not to be subject to military service; he is to be free of external obligations and left at home for one year to make his new wife happy. ⁶ "No one may take a mill or even an upper millstone as collateral for a loan, because that would be taking as collateral the debtor's very means of sustenance. ⁷ "If a man kidnaps any of his brothers, fellow members of the community of Isra'el, and makes him his slave or sells him, that kidnapper must die; in this way you will put an end to such wickedness among you. ⁸ "When there is an outbreak of tzara‘at, be careful to observe and do just what the cohanim, who are L'vi'im, teach you. Take care to do as I ordered them. ⁹ Remember what Adonai your God did to Miryam on the road after you left Egypt. ¹⁰ "When you make any kind of loan to your neighbor, you are not to enter his house to take his collateral. ¹¹ You must stand outside, and the borrower will bring the collateral outside to you. ¹² If he is poor, you are not to go to bed with what he gave as collateral in your possession; ¹³ rather, you must restore the pledged item at sunset; then he will go to sleep wearing his garment and bless you. This will be an upright deed of yours before Adonai your God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 24:17, Job 22:6, Job 24:3, Job 24:9

Reciprocal: Proverbs 3:28 - General Proverbs 25:20 - that taketh Ezekiel 18:7 - hath restored Amos 2:8 - laid

Cross-References

Genesis 15:1
Some time later the word of Adonai came to Avram in a vision: "Don't be afraid, Avram. I am your protector; your reward will be very great."

Genesis 24:7
Adonai , the God of heaven — who took me away from my father's house and away from the land I was born in, who spoke to me and swore to me, ‘I will give this land to your descendants' — he will send his angel ahead of you; and you are to bring a wife for my son from there.

Genesis 24:8
But if the woman is unwilling to follow you, then you are released from your obligation under my oath. Just don't bring my son back there."

Genesis 24:10
(iii) Then the servant took ten of his master's camels and all kinds of gifts from his master, got up and went to Aram-Naharayim, to Nachor's city.

Genesis 24:11
Toward evening, when the women go out to draw water, he had the camels kneel down outside the city by the well.

Genesis 24:16
The girl was very beautiful, a virgin, never having had sexual relations with any man. She went down to the spring, filled her jug and came up.

Genesis 24:17
The servant ran to meet her and said, "Please give me a sip of water from your jug to drink."

Genesis 24:27
(iv) Then he said, "Blessed be Adonai , God of my master Avraham, who has not abandoned his faithful love for my master; because Adonai has guided me to the house of my master's kinsmen."

Genesis 24:42
"So today, I came to the spring and said, ‘ Adonai , God of my master Avraham, if you are causing my trip to succeed in its purpose,

Genesis 24:48
bowed my head, prostrated myself before Adonai and blessed Adonai , God of my master Avraham, for having led me in the right way to obtain my master's brother's [grand]daughter for his son.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And if the man [be] poor,.... Which may be thought to be the case of everyone that gives pledges for a debt he owes, or a sum of money he borrows; yet there might be a difference: some might be so very destitute of goods and raiment in their houses, that whatever they parted with was distressing to them, and they could not well do without it:

thou shalt not sleep with his pledge; nor keep it a night; but deliver it to him, before he went to bed, and laid himself down to sleep.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Exodus 22:25-27.

Deuteronomy 24:13

Righteousness unto thee - Compare Deuteronomy 6:25 note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 24:12. And if the man be poor, c. — Did not this law preclude pledging entirely, especially in case of the abjectly poor? For who would take a pledge in the morning which he knew, if not redeemed, he must restore at night? However, he might resume his claim in the morning, and have the pledge daily returned, and thus keep up his property in it till the debt was discharged Exodus 22:26; Exodus 22:26. The Jews in several cases did act contrary to this rule, and we find them cuttingly reproved for it by the Prophet Amos, Amos 2:8.