“ And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge: ”
Compare Exodus 22:25-27 . Deuteronomy 24:13 Righteousness unto thee - Compare Deuteronomy 6:25 note.
XXIV. 6 f ., 10 - 13, which stood perhaps originally together, belong to the many humanitarian laws of D ( Deuteronomy 15:12-18 *). Corn is still ground in the home in Palestine; this is done by...
And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge: And if the man be poor, etc. - Did not this law preclude pledging entirely, especially in case of the abjectly poor? For who would take...
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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...
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But restore it before night, which intimates that he should take no such thing for pledge, without which a man cannot sleep, since it were an idle thing to fetch it and carry it every day. See Poole...
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Kindness Toward the Poor and Needy
Deuteronomy 24:17 ; Job 22:6 ; Job 24:3 ; Job 24:9
Thou shalt not sleep — But restore it before night, which intimates that he should take no such thing for pledge, without which a man cannot sleep.