(10-13) When thou dost lend. — The law in these verses is evidently the production of primitive and simple times, when men had little more than the bare necessaries of life to offer as security — their own clothing, or the mill-stones used to prepare their daily food, being almost their only portable property. (See Exodus 22:26-27.)
It shall be righteousness. — LXX., it shall be alms, or mercy. In other words, “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.”
10 When thou dost lendb thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
11 Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.
12 And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
13 In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.