Exo 22:26-27, Deu 24:6, 10-13, 17, Job 22:6, 24:3, 9, Eze 18:7, 12, 16 | TSK | STEP

Exodus 22:26-27

to pledge.

De 24:6,10-13,17; Job 22:6; 24:3,9; Pr 20:16; 22:27; Eze 18:7,16

Eze 33:15; Am 2:8

when he crieth.

2:23,24; Ps 34:6; 72:12; Isa 19:20

for I am gracious.

34:6; 2Ch 30:9; Ps 86:15; 136:10,11

Deuteronomy 24:6

shall take.Small hand-mills, which ground at one time only a sufficient quantity for a day's consumption; hence they were forbidden to take either of the stones to pledge, because if they did, they would be deprived of the means of preparing their necessary food, and the family be without bread. On this account they are called in the text, a man's life. The same reason holds good against receiving in pledge, or distraining for debt, any instrument of labour, by which men earn their livelihood.

Ex 22:26,27; Re 18:22

life.

20:19; Ge 44:30; Lu 12:15

Deuteronomy 24:10-13

When.

15:8

lend thy brother any thing. Heb. lend the loan of any thingto thy brother.

17; Job 22:6; 24:3,9

deliver.

Ex 22:26,27; Job 24:7,8; 29:11-13; 31:16-20; Eze 18:7,12,16; 33:15

Am 2:8; 2Ti 1:16-18

the sun.

15; 2Co 9:13,14; Eph 4:26

in his own raiment.The raiment here referred to was most likely the same as the {hyke} of the Arabs, a long kind of blanket, resembling a Highland plaid, generally about six yards in length, and five or six feet broad; in which they often carry their provisions, as well as wrap themselves in, in the day, and sleep in at night, it being their only substitute for a bed. How necessary, then, it was to restore the {hyke} to a poor man before the going down of the sun, that he might have something to repose on, will sufficiently appear from these considerations.

shall be.

6:25; 15:9,10; Ge 15:6; Ps 106:30,31; 112:9; Isa 58:8; Da 4:27

Jas 1:27; 2:13-23