Job 24:3
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3 The donkeys of orphans they drive away;
they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
Deuteronomy 24:6
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Pledges and Kidnappings. 6 [a]No one shall take a hand mill or even its upper stone as a pledge for debt, for that would be taking as a pledge the debtor’s life.
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- 24:6 Since the Israelites ground their grain into flour only in sufficient quantity for their current need, to deprive a debtor of his hand mill was equivalent to condemning him to starvation.
Deuteronomy 24:17
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Rights of the Unprotected. 17 (A)You shall not deprive the resident alien or the orphan of justice, nor take the clothing of a widow as pledge.
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Ezekiel 18:12
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12 oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not give back a pledge, raises his eyes to idols, does abominable things,
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Ezekiel 18:16
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16 who does not oppress anyone, or exact a pledge, or commit robbery; who gives his food to the hungry and clothes the naked;(A)
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