Lux Domini
When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.

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Interpretation

It is of great consequence that love be kept up between husband and wife; that they carefully avoid every thing which might make them strange one to another. Man-stealing was a capital crime, which could not be settled, as other thefts, by restitution.

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This thought runs through Deuteronomy 24:10-13.