Deuteronomy 24:10-13

Of Taking and Restoring Pledges. The lender must not invade the borrower's house to select a pledge for the loan, the borrower shall bring it out (Deuteronomy 24:10 f.); if he be poor, the pledge, usually his outer robe in which he sleeps, shall be restored by sunset (Deuteronomy 24:12 f.). In the Sg. address throughout and in temper and phrase characteristic of D; but the two parts may be borrowed from earlier sources: Deuteronomy 24:10 f. because of neighbour, not brotheras usual with Sg. (see on Deuteronomy 15:2); and Deuteronomy 24:12 f. adapted from E, Exodus 22:26 f. (25 f.; E's ḥabal, pledge, becomes -abat, so as to fit Deuteronomy 24:10 f.), with the religious motive differently expressed. See further on Deuteronomy 24:6. Cp. Ezekiel 18:7; Ezekiel 18:12; Ezekiel 33:15; Code of Ḫammurabi, § 241.