10
When you lend your neighbor any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.
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Verse 10. Pledge. This was left to the choice of the debtor, provided he gave sufficient. The Athenian and Roman laws allowed a person to search his neighbour’s house, for what he had lost: but he was to enter covered only with a short garment round his middle, ( Calmet.) to prevent his taking away any thing which did not belong to him.
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