Pledge

“I will send you a young goat from my flock,” Judah answered. But she replied, “Only if you leave me something as a pledge until you send it.”

“What pledge should I give you?” he asked. She answered, “Your seal and your cord, and the staff in your hand.” So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.

If a man makes a vow to the LORD or swears an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word; he must do everything he has promised.

And if a woman in her father’s house during her youth makes a vow to the LORD or obligates herself by a pledge,

…and her father hears about her vow or pledge but says nothing to her, then all the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.

Her husband may confirm or nullify any vow or any sworn pledge to deny herself.

Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.

My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have struck hands in pledge with a stranger,

A man lacking judgment strikes hands in pledge and puts up security for his neighbor.

He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Seeing that he gave his hand in pledge yet did all these things, he will not escape!’

He does not oppress another, but restores the pledge to the debtor. He does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.

He oppresses the poor and needy; he commits robbery and does not restore a pledge. He lifts his eyes to idols; he commits abominations.

He does not oppress another, or retain a pledge, or commit robbery. He gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.

…if he restores a pledge, makes restitution for what he has stolen, and walks in the statutes of life without practicing iniquity—then he will surely live; he will not die.

They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.

…placed His seal on us, and put His Spirit in our hearts as a pledge of what is to come.

And it is God who has prepared us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a pledge of what is to come.

…who is the pledge of our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession, to the praise of His glory.

And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,