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Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam after you left Egypt.[a]

10 If you lend something to your neighbour you may take something from him as a guarantee.[b] But do not go into his house to take it. 11 You must wait outside the house. Then your neighbour can bring out what he has chosen to give you.

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Footnotes

  1. 24:9 See Numbers 12:1-15. Leprosy was a bad disease of the skin. Other people could get the disease very easily.
  2. 24:10 The guarantee is to make sure that the person pays back what he should pay.

Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam along the way after you came out of Egypt.(A)

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.(B) 11 Stay outside and let the neighbor to whom you are making the loan bring the pledge out to you.

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