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Deuteronomy 24:12
Deuteronomy 24:12 is verse 12 of Deuteronomy chapter 24, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with the security in your possession;
King James Version
And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
World English Bible
If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.
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Deuteronomy 24:10–14 · Berean Standard Bible
10 When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security.
11 You are to stand outside while the man to whom you are lending brings the security out to you.
12 If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with the security in your possession;
13 be sure to return it to him by sunset, so that he may sleep in his own cloak and bless you, and this will be credited to you as righteousness before the LORD your God.
14 Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Deuteronomy 24:17Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.
Job 22:6For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.
Job 24:3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
Job 24:9The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.