You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring the pledge outside to you.
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You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring the pledge outside to you.
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Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.
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Thou shalt stand without, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring forth the pledge without unto thee.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain He shall choose what pledge he please, provided only…
He shall choose what pledge he please, provided only it be sufficient for the purpose.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Thou shall stand abroad,.... Without doors, in the street,…
Thou shall stand abroad,.... Without doors, in the street, as the Targum of Jonathan, while the borrower or debtor looks out, and brings forth what he can best spare as a pledge:
and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee; now as, on the one hand, if the lender or creditor had been allowed to go in and take what he pleased for a pledge, he would choose the best; so, on the other hand, the borrower or debtor would be apt to bring the worst, what was of the least value and use; wherefore the Jews made it a rule that it should be of a middling sort, between both, lest it should be a discouragement and hinderance to lend upon pledges (l).
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(l) Misn. Gittin, c. 5. sect. 1. Maimon. & Bartenora in ib.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The pledge - He shall chuse what pledge he…
The pledge - He shall chuse what pledge he pleases, provided it be sufficient for the purpose.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 24:11 wait outside: Even debtors were to be allowed…
24:11 wait outside: Even debtors were to be allowed their dignity and spared unnecessary embarrassment. A creditor was not to invade the debtor’s privacy when collecting from him.
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