Text -- Exodus 22:27 (NET)

22:27 for it is his only covering– it is his garment for his body. What else can he sleep in? And when he cries out to me, I will hear, for I am gracious.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Exo 22:27

¹ tn Heb “his skin.”

² tn Literally the text reads, “In what can he lie down?” The cloak would be used for a covering at night to use when sleeping. The garment, then, was the property that could not be taken and not given back – it was the last possession. The modern idiom of “the shirt off his back” gets at the point being made here.

³ tn Heb “and it will be.”