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If you take your neighbor`s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,
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The Poor Man's Blanket
Commentators explain that the 'garment' was a large outer cloak, often the only blanket a poor person owned. The law required it to be returned by sunset, even if held as a pledge for a loan. This demonstrates God's practical compassion, prioritizing a person's basic need for warmth and survival over a lender's financial security.
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Exodus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The law regarding pledges is expanded, (Deuteronomy 24:6), (Deuteronomy 24:10–13).
19th Century
Anglican
Thy neighbour’s raiment.—The simlah, or salmah, here translated “raiment,” was the large flowing outer …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
If you at all take your neighbour's raiment to pledge So that it seems that the lender, though he might not impose u…
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