Deuteronomy 24:12
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New International Version (©2011)
If the neighbor is poor, do not go to sleep with their pledge in your possession.

New Living Translation (©2007)
If your neighbor is poor and gives you his cloak as security for a loan, do not keep the cloak overnight.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And if he is a poor man, you shall not sleep in his pledge.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
If he is a poor man, you must not sleep in the garment he has given as security.

International Standard Version (©2012)
If he is a poor man, don't go to sleep with his collateral in your possession.

NET Bible (©2006)
If the person is poor you may not use what he gives you as security for a covering.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
If the person is poor, don't keep the coat you took as a deposit overnight.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And if the man be poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge:

American King James Version
And if the man be poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge:

American Standard Version
And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge;

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if he be poor, the pledge shall not lodge with thee that night,

Darby Bible Translation
And if the man be needy, thou shalt not lie down with his pledge;

English Revised Version
And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:

Webster's Bible Translation
And if the man is poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:

World English Bible
If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;

Young's Literal Translation
'And if he is a poor man, thou dost not lie down with his pledge;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

24:5-13 It is of great consequence that love be kept up between husband and wife; that they carefully avoid every thing which might make them strange one to another. Man-stealing was a capital crime, which could not be settled, as other thefts, by restitution. The laws concerning leprosy must be carefully observed. Thus all who feel their consciences under guilt and wrath, must not cover it, or endeavour to shake off their convictions; but by repentance, and prayer, and humble confession, take the way to peace and pardon. Some orders are given about pledges for money lent. This teaches us to consult the comfort and subsistence of others, as much as our own advantage. Let the poor debtor sleep in his own raiment, and praise God for thy kindness to him. Poor debtors ought to feel more than commonly they do, the goodness of creditors who do not take all the advantage of the law against them, nor should this ever be looked upon as weakness.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 very destitute of goods and raiment in their houses, that whatever they parted with was distressing to them, and they could not well do without it:

thou shalt not sleep with his pledge; nor keep it a night; but deliver it to him, before he went to bed, and laid himself down to sleep.

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Additional Laws
…11You shall stand abroad, and the man to whom you do lend shall bring out the pledge abroad to you. 12And if the man be poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge: 13In any case you shall deliver him the pledge again when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before the LORD your God. …

Deuteronomy 24:11 Stay outside and let the neighbor to whom you are making the loan bring the pledge out to you.
Deuteronomy 24:13 Return their cloak by sunset so that your neighbor may sleep in it. Then they will thank you, and it will be regarded as a righteous act in the sight of the LORD your God.