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Deuteronomy 24:10

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When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

When thou dost lend thy neighbor any manner of loan, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.

KJV

When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.

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This verse in Deuteronomy 24

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The borrower (says Solomon) is servant to the lender; therefore lest the lender should abuse the advantage he has against him, and improve it for his own interest, it is provided that he shall take not what he pleases, but what the borrower can best spare. A man's house is his castle, even the poor man's house is so, and is here taken under the protection of the law.

This site's exposition

When thou dost lend thy brother any thing

on Deuteronomy 24:10-15

The creditor waits outside and the debtor brings the pledge out to him, so a poor man's house is not entered over a debt. Exodus 22:26-27 already required the garment back by sundown, and verse 13 adds what the older statute did not, that it shall be righteousness unto thee before the Lord thy God. The hired servant is paid at his day whether he is of thy brethren or of thy strangers, because he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it, and Leviticus 19:13 gives the same rule. James 5:4 has the hire of the labourers kept back by fraud crying into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

When thou dost lend thy brother anything,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Compare Exo 22:25-27. Deu 24:13 Righteousness unto thee - Compare Deu 6:25 note.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

If you become your fellow’s creditor for any amount of debt, do not enter his house to take his pledge [ collateral ].
Targum · Onkelos Deuteronomy 24:10, via Sefaria, Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

11 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • כִּֽי־if

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • תַשֶּׁ֥הyou will lend

    tashehH5383 →12 times

  • בְרֵֽעֲךָto neighbor your

    vereakhaH7453 →188 times

  • מַשַּׁ֣אתa loan of

    mashatH4859 →

  • מְא֑וּמָהanything

    meumahH3972 →

  • לֹא־not

    lo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • תָבֹ֥אyou will go

    tavo'H935 →2568 times

  • אֶל־into

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • בֵּית֖וֹhouse his

    beitoH1004 →2046 times

  • לַעֲבֹ֥טto take as pledge

    laavotH5670 →6 times

  • עֲבֹטֽוֹ׃pledge his

    avotoH5667 →4 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

2 in all, six open

The walk

7 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Exodus 22:27

    because his cloak is the only covering he has for his body. What else will he sleep in? And if he cries out to Me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 34:6

      Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,

    • 2 Chronicles 30:9

      For if you return to the LORD, your brothers and sons will receive mercy in the presence of their captors and will return to this land. For the LORD your God is gracious and…

    • Psalms 86:15

      But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.

    • Psalms 34:6

      This poor man called out, and the LORD heard him; He saved him from all his troubles.

    • Psalms 72:12

      For he will deliver the needy who cry out and the afflicted who have no helper.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 15:8

    Instead, you are to open your hand to him and freely loan him whatever he needs.

    it leads to

    • Matthew 5:42

      Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.

    • Luke 6:34

      And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid in full.

Where this verse is studied

About Deuteronomy

Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Deuteronomy: the study guide →Read Deuteronomy 24 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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