Deuteronomy 24:12

12 Forthermore yf it be a pore body, goo not to slepe with his pledge:

Deuteronomy 24:12 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 24:12

And if the man [be] poor
Which may be thought to be the case of everyone that gives pledges for a debt he owes, or a sum of money he borrows; yet there might be a difference: some might be so very destitute of goods and raiment in their houses, that whatever they parted with was distressing to them, and they could not well do without it:

thou shalt not sleep with his pledge;
nor keep it a night; but deliver it to him, before he went to bed, and laid himself down to sleep.

Deuteronomy 24:12 In-Context

10 Yf thou lende thy brother any maner soker, thou shalt not goo in to his housse to fetche a pledge:

11 but shalt stonde without and the man to whom thou lendest, shall brynge the the pledge out at the dore.

12 Forthermore yf it be a pore body, goo not to slepe with his pledge:

13 but delyuer hym the pledge agayne by that the sonne goo doune, and let him slepe in his owne rayment and blesse the. And it shalbe rightuousnes vnto the, before the Lorde thy God.

14 Thou shalt not defraude an hyred servaunte that is nedye and poore, whether he be off thy brethern or a straunger that is in thy lond within thy cities.