Catholic Public Domain Version
"But if he is poor, then the collateral shall not remain with you through the night. "
— Deuteronomy 24:12, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:”
“And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge; ”
“If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;”
“If the person is poor you may not use what he gives you as security for a covering.”
“But if he be poor, the pledge shall not lodge with thee that night,”
“If he is a poor man, do not keep his property all night;”
“And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:”
Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam, along the way, as you were departing from Egypt.
When you require from your neighbor anything that he owes to you, you shall not enter into his house in order to take away the collateral.
Instead, you shall stand outside, and he will carry out to you what he has.
But if he is poor, then the collateral shall not remain with you through the night.
Instead, you shall return it to him promptly, before the setting of the sun, so that, sleeping in his own garment, he may bless you, and you may have justice in the presence of the Lord your God.
You shall not refuse the pay of the indigent and the poor, whether he is your brother, or he is a new arrival who dwells with you in the land and is within your gates.
Instead, you shall pay him the price of his labor on the same day, before the setting of the sun. For he is poor, and with it he sustains his life. Otherwise, he may cry out against you to the Lord, and it would be charged to you as a sin.