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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]

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Footnotes

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