Deu 24:10-13 | NET2full | STEP | When you make any kind of loan to your neighbor , you may not go into his house to claim what he is offering as security .

Deuteronomy 24:10-13

10 When you make any kind of loan to your neighbor, you may not go into his house to claim what he is offering as security. ^{▼▼tn Heb “his pledge.” This refers to something offered as pledge of repayment, i.e., as security for the debt.} 11 You must stand outside and the person to whom you are making the loan will bring out to you what he is offering as security. ^{▼▼tn Heb “his pledge.”} 12 If the person is poor you may not use what he gives you as security for a covering. ^{▼▼tn Heb “may not lie down in his pledge.” What is in view is the use of clothing as guarantee for the repayment of loans, a matter already addressed elsewhere (Deut 23:19-20; 24:6; cf. Exod 22:25-26; Lev 25:35-37). Cf. NAB “you shall not sleep in the mantle he gives as a pledge”; NRSV “in the garment given you as the pledge.”} 13 You must by all means ^{▼▼tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation seeks to reflect with “by all means.”} return to him at sunset the item he gave you as security so that he may sleep in his outer garment and bless you for it; it will be considered a just deed ^{▼▼tn Or “righteous” (so NIV, NLT).} by the Lord your God.