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Respecting the Poor

10 “When you loan something to your neighbor, don’t enter his house to seize what he offered as collateral. 11 Stay outside and let the man to whom you made the loan bring it[a] out to you. 12 If he is a poor man, don’t go to sleep with his collateral in your possession.[b] 13 Be sure to return his garment[c] to him at sunset so that he may sleep with it, and he will bless you. It will be a righteous deed in the presence of the Lord your God.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 24:11 Lit. the collateral
  2. Deuteronomy 24:12 The Heb. lacks in your possession
  3. Deuteronomy 24:13 Lit. collateral

10 When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, do not go into their house to get what is offered to you as a pledge.(A) 11 Stay outside and let the neighbor to whom you are making the loan bring the pledge out to you. 12 If the neighbor is poor, do not go to sleep with their pledge(B) in your possession. 13 Return their cloak by sunset(C) so that your neighbor may sleep in it.(D) Then they will thank you, and it will be regarded as a righteous act in the sight of the Lord your God.(E)

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