Primary Verses:

1. Exodus 22:26

   • "If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:"

2. Deuteronomy 24:10-13

   • "When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.  Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.  And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:  In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before YHVH thy God."

Supporting Verses:

3. Job 24:9-10

   • "They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.  They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;"

4. Romans 15:26

   • "For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem."

5. Galatians 2:10

   • "Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do."