26If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.
When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge. …
If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 25-31)Here is, I. A law against extortion in lending. 1. They must not receive use for money from any that borrowed for necessity (Exod. 22:25), as in that case, Neh. 5:5 , 7 . And such provision the law made for the preservation of estates to their families by the year of jubilee that a people who had little concern in trade could not be supposed to borrow money but for necessity, and therefore it is g…
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