12And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-13)Here is, I. Provision made for the preservation and confirmation of love between new-married people, Deut. 24:5. This fitly follows upon the laws concerning divorce, which would be prevented if their affection to each other were well settled at first. If the husband were much abroad from his wife the first year, his love to her would be in danger of cooling, and of being drawn aside to others whom…
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