“If you take your neighbor’s garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Exodus 22 contains 31 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.