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Deuteronomy 24:13 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" 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 the LORD your God. "
Deuteronomy 24:13
Verse in Context
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11 You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring the pledge outside to you.
12 If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.
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 the LORD your God.
14 You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the foreigners who are in your land within your gates.
15 In his day you shall give him his wages, neither shall the sun go down on it, for he is poor and sets his heart on it, lest he cry against you to the LORD, and it be sin to you.
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Deuteronomy 24:1
"When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a certificate of divorce, put it in her hand, and send her out of his house."
Deuteronomy 24:2
"When she has departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife."
Deuteronomy 24:3
"If the latter husband hates her, and writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband dies, who took her to be his wife;"
Deuteronomy 24:4
"her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife after she is defiled; for that would be an abomination to the LORD. You shall not cause the land to sin, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance."
Deuteronomy 24:5
"When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken."
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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