Deuteronomy 24:12

New Century Version

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

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 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.

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

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 A man who has just married must not be sent to war or be given any other duty. He should be free to stay home for a year to make his new wife happy. ⁶ If someone owes you something, do not take his two stones for grinding grain—not even the upper one—in place of what he owes, because this is how the person makes a living. ⁷ If someone kidnaps a fellow Israelite, either to make him a slave or sell him, the kidnapper must be killed. You must get rid of the evil among you. ⁸ Be careful when someone has a skin disease. Do exactly what the priests, the Levites, teach you, being careful to do what I have commanded them. ⁹ Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam on your way out of Egypt. ¹⁰ When you make a loan to your neighbors, don't go into their homes to get something in place of it. ¹¹ Stay outside and let them go in and get what they promised you. ¹² If a poor person gives you a coat to show he will pay the loan back, don't keep it overnight. ¹³ Give the coat back at sunset, because your neighbor needs that coat to sleep in, and he will be grateful to you. And the Lord your God will see that you have done a good thing.

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
After these things happened, the Lord spoke his word to Abram in a vision: "Abram, don't be afraid. I will defend you, and I will give you a great reward."

Genesis 24:7
The Lord , the God of heaven, brought me from the home of my father and the land of my relatives. And he promised me, ‘I will give this land to your descendants.' The Lord will send his angel before you to help you get a wife for my son there.

Genesis 24:8
If the girl won't come back with you, you will be free from this promise. But you must not take my son back there."

Genesis 24:10
The servant took ten of Abraham's camels and left, carrying with him many different kinds of beautiful gifts. He went to Northwest Mesopotamia to Nahor's city.

Genesis 24:11
In the evening, when the women come out to get water, he made the camels kneel down at the well outside the city.

Genesis 24:16
She was very pretty, a virgin; she had never had sexual relations with a man. She went down to the spring and filled her jar, then came back up.

Genesis 24:17
The servant ran to her and said, "Please give me a little water from your jar."

Genesis 24:27
and said, "Blessed is the Lord , the God of my master Abraham. The Lord has been kind and truthful to him and has led me to my master's relatives."

Genesis 24:42
"Today I came to this spring. I said, ‘ Lord , God of my master Abraham, please make my trip successful.

Genesis 24:48
and I bowed my head and thanked the Lord . I praised the Lord , the God of my master Abraham, because he led me on the right road to get the granddaughter of my master's brother 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.