John Gill Commentary Deuteronomy 24:11

"Thou shalt stand without, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring forth the pledge without unto thee." — Deuteronomy 24:11 (ASV)

You will stand abroad
Without doors, in the street, as the Targum of Jonathan, while the borrower or debtor looks out, and brings forth what he can best spare as a pledge:

and the man to whom you do lend will bring out the pledge abroad
to you ;
now as, on the one hand, if the lender or creditor had been allowed to go in and take what he pleased for a pledge, he would choose the best; so, on the other hand, the borrower or debtor would be apt to bring the worst, what was of the least value and use; therefore the Jews made it a rule that it should be of a middling sort, between both, lest it should be a discouragement and hinderance to lend upon pledges^F12.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F12: Misn. Gittin, c. 5. sect. 1. Maimon. & Bartenora in ib.