"When you lend someone something, you are not to take as security his millstones used for grinding his grain. This would take away the family's means of preparing food to stay alive.

"When you lend someone something, do not go into his house to get the garment he is going to give you as security;

If he is poor, do not keep it overnight;

To make a brother repay you the money he owed, you took away his clothes and left him nothing to wear.

They take donkeys that belong to orphans, and keep a widow's ox till she pays her debts.

Evil people make slaves of fatherless infants and take the children of the poor in payment for debts.

Anyone stupid enough to promise to be responsible for a stranger's debts ought to have their own property held to guarantee payment.

If you should be unable to pay, they will take away even your bed.

He doesn't cheat or rob anyone. He returns what a borrower gives him as security; he feeds the hungry and gives clothing to the naked.

or oppress anyone or rob anyone. He returns what a borrower gives him as security. He feeds the hungry and gives clothing to the naked.

for example, if he returns the security he took for a loan or gives back what he stole---if he stops sinning and follows the laws that give life, he will not die, but live.

At every place of worship people sleep on clothing that they have taken from the poor as security for debts. In the temple of their God they drink wine which they have taken from those who owe them money.