Exo 22:26-27, 2Ki 4:1, Pro 20:16 | ESV | STEP | If ever you take your neighbor’s cloak in pledge , you shall return it to him before the sun goes down ,

a Deut. 24:13, 17; Prov. 20:16; Ezek. 18:7, 16; Amos 2:8; [Prov. 22:27]

b[See ver. 23 above]

e[Lev. 25:39-41; 1 Sam. 22:2; Neh. 5:5; Matt. 18:25]

Exodus 22:26-27

26 ^aIf ever you take your neighbor’s cloak in pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down, 27 for that is his only covering, and it is his cloak for his body; in what else shall he sleep? And if he ^bcries to me, I will hear, for I am ^ccompassionate.

2 Kings 4:1

Elisha and the Widow’s Oil

1 Now the wife of one of the ^dsons of the prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord, ^ebut the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”

Proverbs 20:16

16 ^fTake a man’s garment when he has put up security for a stranger,
and ^ghold it in pledge when he puts up security for foreigners. ^{▼▼Or for an adulteress (compare 27:13)}