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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).

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