Amos 2:8
They lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge. In the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.
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Amos 2:8
They lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge. In the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.
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Amos 2:7
They trample the heads of the poor into the dust of the earth and deny justice to the oppressed. A man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name.
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Exodus 22:26
If you take your neighbor’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,
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Deuteronomy 24:12
If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.
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Deuteronomy 24:13
You shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment and bless you. It shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.
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Job 22:6
For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
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Exodus 22:27
for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.
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Job 24:3
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
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Deuteronomy 24:6
No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone as a pledge, for he takes a life in pledge.
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Deuteronomy 24:17
You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;
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Esther 1:6
There were hangings of white and blue material, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and marble pillars. The couches were of gold and silver, on a pavement of red, white, yellow, and black marble.
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Ezekiel 18:7
and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;
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