Deuteronomy Chapter 24 verse 10 Holy Bible
When thou dost lend thy neighbor any manner of loan, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
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If you let your brother have the use of anything which is yours, do not go into his house and take anything of his as a sign of his debt;
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When thou dost lend thy brother anything, thou shalt not go into his house to secure his pledge.
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When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
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When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to take his pledge:
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When you do lend your neighbor any manner of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.
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`When thou liftest up on thy brother a debt of anything, thou dost not go in unto his house to obtain his pledge;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 10-13. - If one had to take a pledge from another, he was not to go into the house of the latter and take what he thought fit; he must stand without, and allow the debtor to bring to him what he saw meet to offer. He might stand outside and summon the debtor to produce his pledge, but he was not insolently to enter the house and lay hands on any part of the owner's property. To stand outside and call is still a common mode of seeking access to a person in his own house or apartment among the Arabs, and is regarded as the only respectful mode. There would be thus a mitigation of the severity of the exaction, the tendency of which would be to preserve good feeling between the parties. If the debtor was needy, and being such could give in pledge only some necessary article, such as his upper garment in which he slept at night, the pledge was to be returned ere nightfall, that the man might sleep in his own raiment, and have a grateful feeling towards his creditor. In many parts of the East, with the Arabs notably, it is customary for the poor to sleep in their outer garment. "During the day the poor while at work can and do dispense with this outside raiment, but at night it is greatly needed, even in summer. This furnishes a good reason why this sort of pledge should be restored before night" (Thomson, 'Land and the Book,' 1:192, 500). The earlier legislation (Exodus 22:25, 26) is evidently assumed here as well known by the people. It shall be righteousness unto thee (see on Deuteronomy 6:25).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(10-13) When thou dost lend.--The law in these verses is evidently the production of primitive and simple times, when men had little more than the bare necessaries of life to offer as security--their own clothing, or the mill-stones used to prepare their daily food, being almost their only portable property. (See Exodus 22:26-27.)It shall be righteousness.--LXX., it shall be alms, or mercy. In other words, "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy."