Text -- Deuteronomy 24:12 (NET)

24:12 If the person is poor you may not use what he gives you as security for a covering.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Deu 24:12

¹ 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.”