Scripture · Old Testament
Exodus 22:26
Exodus 22:26 is verse 26 of Exodus chapter 22, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,
King James Version
If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
World English Bible
If you take your neighbor’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,
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Exodus 22:24–28 · Berean Standard Bible
24 My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will become widows and your children will be fatherless.
25 If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.
26 If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,
27 because his cloak is the only covering he has for his body. What else will he sleep in? And if he cries out to Me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.
28 You must not blaspheme God or curse the ruler of your people.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Deuteronomy 24:6Do 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.
Deuteronomy 24:10When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security.
Deuteronomy 24:11You are to stand outside while the man to whom you are lending brings the security out to you.
Deuteronomy 24:12If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with the security in your possession;
Deuteronomy 24:13be 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.
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.
Proverbs 20:16Take the garment of the one who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.
Proverbs 22:27If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?
Ezekiel 18:7He 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.
Ezekiel 18:16He does not oppress another, or retain a pledge, or commit robbery. He gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.
Ezekiel 33:15if 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.
Amos 2:8They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.