²⁶ ‘If you ever take your neighbour’s cloak as collateral, return it to him before sunset.

Safeguarding Life

⁶ ‘Do not take a pair of grindstones or even the upper millstone as security for a debt, because that is like taking a life as security.

¹⁷ Do not deny justice to a resident foreigner or fatherless child, and do not take a widow’s garment as security.

¹² and when he oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, and does not return collateral, and when he looks to the idols, commits detestable acts,^(A)