Exodus 22 · Verse 26

Exodus 22:26

If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:

Exodus 22:26, King James Version

Exodus 22:26 in other translations

BSB	If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,
WEB	If you take your neighbor’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,
ASV	If thou at all take thy neighbor’s garment to pledge, thou shalt restore it unto him before the sun goeth down:
YLT	if thou dost at all take in pledge the garment of thy neighbour, during the going in of the sun thou dost return it to him:
DARBY	— If thou at all take thy neighbour's garment in pledge, thou shalt return it to him before the sun goes down;
BBE	If ever you take your neighbour's clothing in exchange for the use of your money, let him have it back before the sun goes down:
Webster	If thou shalt at all take thy neighbor's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it to him by the setting of the sun.

What does Exodus 22:26 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 22:26-27

26-27. If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, &c.--From the nature of the case, this is the description of a poor man. No Orientals undress, but, merely throwing off their turbans and some of their heavy outer garments, they sleep in the clothes which they wear during the day. The bed of the poor is usually nothing else than a mat; and, in winter, they cover themselves with a cloak--a practice which forms the ground or reason of the humane and merciful law respecting the pawned coat.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 26 If thou - take thy neighbor's raiment to pledge - It seems strange that any pledge should be taken which must be so speedily restored; but it is very likely that the pledge was restored by night only, and that he who pledged it brought it back to his creditor next morning. The opinion of the rabbins is, that whatever a man needed for the support of life, he had the use of it when absolutely necessary, though it was pledged. Thus he had the use of his working tools by day, but he brought them to his creditor in the evening. His hyke, which serves an Arab as a plaid does a Highlander, (See Clarke's note on Exo 12:34), was probably the raiment here referred to: it is a sort of coarse blanket, about six yards long, and five or six feet broad, which an Arab always carries with him, and on which he sleeps at night, it being his only substitute for a bed. As the fashions in the east scarcely ever change, it is very likely that the raiment of the Israelites was precisely the same with that of the modern Arabs, who live in the very same desert in which the Hebrews were when this law was given. How necessary 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 appear evident from the above considerations. At the same time, the returning it daily to the creditor was a continual acknowledgment of the debt, and served instead of a written acknowledgment or bond; as we may rest assured that writing, if practiced at all before the giving of the law, was not common: but it is most likely that it did not exist.

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Exodus 22:26 in the original Hebrew

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אִם\־'im-<if>H518

חָבֹ֥לcha.Volcertainly [if] <to take as pledge>H2254

תַּחְבֹּ֖לtach.Bolyou will take as pledgeH2254

שַׂלְמַ֣תsal.Mat[the] cloak ofH8008

רֵעֶ֑ךָre.'E.khaneighbor yourH7453

עַד\־'ad-untilH5704

בֹּ֥אbo'goesH935

הַשֶּׁ֖מֶשׁha.She.meshthe sunH8121

תְּשִׁיבֶ֥נּוּte.shi.Ve.nuyou will return itH7725

לֽוֹ\׃loto <the> him

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Cross references for Exodus 22:26

Proverbs 20:16
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
Amos 2:8
And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
Deuteronomy 24:6
No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man’s life to pledge.
Ezekiel 18:16
Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment,
Proverbs 22:27
If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
Job 24:3
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
Deuteronomy 24:17
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:
Deuteronomy 24:10-13
When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge. Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee. And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge: In 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.
Ezekiel 18:7
And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;
Ezekiel 33:15
If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Job 22:6
For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
Job 24:9
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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Context

Exodus 22:25
If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.
Exodus 22:26
If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
Exodus 22:27
For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.

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Exodus 22:26 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Si tomares en prenda el vestido de tu prójimo, á puestas del sol se lo volverás:
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	car c’est sa seule couverture, son vêtement pour sa peau: dans quoi coucherait-il? Il arrivera que, quand il criera à moi, je l’écouterai; car je suis miséricordieux.
German Elberfelder 1871	Wenn du irgend deines Nächsten Mantel zum Pfande nimmst, so sollst du ihm denselben zurückgeben, ehe die Sonne untergeht;
Latin Clementine Vulgate	Si pignus a proximo tuo acceperis vestimentum, ante solis occasum reddes ei.