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Exodus 22:26
If you ever seize your neighbor’s cloak as a pledge, you are to return it to him before the sun sets,
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Ezekiel 18:12
oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore a pledge, but raises his eyes to the idols and commits abomination,
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Ezekiel 18:16
nor oppressed anyone, nor retained a pledge, nor committed robbery; instead, he gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing,
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Job 24:3
They drive away the donkeys of orphans; They seize the widow’s ox as a pledge.
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Job 24:9-10
Others snatch an orphan from the breast, And they seize it as a pledge against the poor.The poor move about naked without clothing, And they carry sheaves, while going hungry.
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Deuteronomy 24:10-18
“ When you make your neighbor a loan of any kind, you shall not enter his house to take his pledge.You shall stand outside, and the person to whom you are making the loan shall bring the pledge outside to you.And if he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.When the sun goes down you shall certainly return the pledge to him, so that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you; and it will be righteousness for you before the Lord your God.“ You shall not exploit a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your countrymen or one of your strangers who are in your land in your towns.You shall give him his wages on his day before the sun sets— for he is poor and sets his heart on it— so that he does not cry out against you to the Lord, and it becomes a sin in you.“ Fathers shall not be put to death for their sons, nor shall sons be put to death for their fathers; everyone shall be put to death for his own sin alone.“ You shall not pervert the justice due a stranger or an orphan, nor seize a widow’s garment as a pledge.But you are to remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and that the Lord your God redeemed you from there; therefore I am commanding you to do this thing.
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Deuteronomy 24:6
“ No one shall seize a handmill or an upper millstone as a pledge for a loan, since he would be seizing the debtor’s means of life as a pledge.
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Job 31:19-20
If I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering,If his waist has not thanked me, And if he has not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep,
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Amos 2:8
And on garments seized as pledges they stretch out beside every altar, And in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.
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Ezekiel 18:7
and if a man does not oppress anyone, but restores to the debtor his pledge, does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing,
