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Deuteronomy 24:6
One must not take either lower or upper millstones as security on a loan, for that is like taking a life itself as security.
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Job 22:6-9
“ For you took pledges from your brothers for no reason, and you stripped the clothing from the naked.You gave the weary no water to drink and from the hungry you withheld food.Although you were a powerful man, owning land, an honored man living on it,you sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you crushed.
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Deuteronomy 24:17-21
You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow’s garment as security for a loan.Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the LORD your God redeemed you from there; therefore I am commanding you to do all this.Whenever you reap your harvest in your field and leave some unraked grain there, you must not return to get it; it should go to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow so that the LORD your God may bless all the work you do.When you beat your olive tree you must not repeat the procedure; the remaining olives belong to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow.When you gather the grapes of your vineyard you must not do so a second time; they should go to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow.
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Job 31:16-17
If I have refused to give the poor what they desired, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,If I ate my morsel of bread myself, and did not share any of it with orphans–
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Deuteronomy 24:10-13
When you make any kind of loan to your neighbor, you may not go into his house to claim what he is offering as security.You must stand outside and the person to whom you are making the loan will bring out to you what he is offering as security.If the person is poor you may not use what he gives you as security for a covering.You must by all means return to him at sunset the item he gave you as security so that he may sleep in his outer garment and bless you for it; it will be considered a just deed by the LORD your God.
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1 Samuel 12 3
Here I am. Bring a charge against me before the LORD and before his chosen king. Whose ox have I taken? Whose donkey have I taken? Whom have I wronged? Whom have I oppressed? From whose hand have I taken a bribe so that I would overlook something? Tell me, and I will return it to you!”