Debt: Security For

If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest. …

Do not take a pair of millstones or even an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that would be taking one’s livelihood as security.

Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our homes to get grain during the famine.”

Still others were saying, “We have borrowed money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards.

For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.

The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.

He who puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer, but the one who hates indebtedness is secure.

Do not be one who gives pledges, who puts up security for debts.

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