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Deuteronomy 24:12

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And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
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  1. Deuteronomy 24:17Rank 1 from verse 12
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    17¶ Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:

  2. Job 22:6Rank 2 from verse 12
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    6For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

  3. Job 24:3Rank 3 from verse 12
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    3They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

  4. Job 24:9Rank 4 from verse 12
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    9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

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Deuteronomy 24:12

COMBINED MEANING

man

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1. A human being or person. 2. Mankind collectively. 3. A male person.

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thou

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The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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sleep

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Sense 1: Natural bodily rest with suspended waking activity; figuratively, inattention or inactivity; or death described as sleep. Sense 2: To rest in sleep; figuratively, to lie in death.

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11Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.

12And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:

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13In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the Lord thy God.

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