And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with 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.