Additional Laws
Deuteronomy 24:12
In 11 translations
- BSB
- If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with the security in your possession;
- KJV
- And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
- WEB
- If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.
- ASV
- And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge;
- LSV
- And if he is a poor man, you do not lie down with his pledge;
- YLT
- 'And if he is a poor man, thou dost not lie down with his pledge;
- DBY
- And if the man be needy, thou shalt not lie down with his pledge;
- DRC
- But if he be poor, the pledge shall not lodge with thee that night,
- GNV
- Furthermore if it be a poore body, thou shalt not sleepe with his pledge,
- JPS
- And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge;
- LXXE
- And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- וְאִם־אִ֥ישׁ עָנִ֖י ה֑וּא לֹ֥א תִשְׁכַּ֖ב בַּעֲבֹטֽוֹ׃
- LXX-Br
- Ἐὰν δὲ ὁ ἄνθρωπος πένηται, οὐ κοιμηθήσῃ ἐν τῷ ἐνεχύρῳ αὐτοῦ.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Deuteronomy 24:17Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.
- Job 24:3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
- Job 22:6For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.
- Job 24:9The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).
Verse numbering differs between Bibles
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