Exodus 22:26
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If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,
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Take the garment of the one who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.
They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.
Do not take a pair of millstones or even an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that would be taking one’s livelihood as security.
If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?
Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.
He does not oppress another, or retain a pledge, or commit robbery. He gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
He does not oppress another, but restores the pledge to the debtor. He does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.
if he restores a pledge, makes restitution for what he has stolen, and walks in the statutes of life without practicing iniquity—then he will surely live; he will not die.
The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.