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Deuteronomy 24:11

in Deuteronomy 24

You are to stand outside while the man to whom you are lending brings the security out to you.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Thou shalt stand without, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring forth the pledge without unto thee.

KJV

Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.

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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 you lend anything to your neighbor

on Deuteronomy 24:10-15

The creditor stands outside and the debtor brings the security out. A poor man's house is never entered over a debt.

This site's exposition

You are to stand outside

The borrower chooses the pledge he brings out, and Wesley allows any pledge that covers the debt. Henry cites Proverbs 22:7, that the borrower is servant to the lender, and reads the rule as keeping the lender from taking what he fancies. The poor man's want stays hidden, Wesley adds.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Thou shall stand abroad,....

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

AND IF HE BE A POOR MAN, [THOU SHALT NOT SLEEP WITH HIS PLEDGE]. The term “poor” applies to him who has no alternative pledge similar to the item he gave him [the creditor].
Ramban: Spain, 1194–1270 · Ramban on Deuteronomy 24:12:1, via Sefaria, Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
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

12 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.

  • בַּח֖וּץon the outside

    bachutzH2351 →164 times

  • תַּעֲמֹ֑דyou will stand

    taamodH5975 →521 times

  • וְהָאִ֗ישׁand the person

    vehaishH376 →1663 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֤רwhom

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • אַתָּה֙you

    ʾatahH859 →1094 times

  • נֹשֶׁ֣ה[are] lending

    noshehH5383 →12 times

  • ב֔וֹto him

    vo

  • יוֹצִ֥יאhe will bring out

    yotzi'H3318 →1067 times

  • אֵלֶ֛יךָto you

    ʾeleikhaH413 →5510 times

  • אֶֽת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַעֲב֖וֹטthe pledge

    haavotH5667 →4 times

  • הַחֽוּצָה׃the outside towards

    hachutzahH2351 →164 times

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

Where this verse is studied

About Deuteronomy

Moses Viewing the Promised Land, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846. Public domain.
Moses Viewing the Promised Land, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846. Public domain.
Deuteronomy: the study guide →Read Deuteronomy 24 →

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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