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Mashkon (Pledge / Security for a Loan)

The biblical and Talmudic law of collateral — the prohibition on entering to seize a pledge and on withholding a poor man's garment; a core institution of loan law.

The biblical and Talmudic law of collateral — the prohibition on entering to seize a pledge and on withholding a poor man's garment; a core institution of loan law.

How it traveled

  1. Deuteronomy
    Eretz Yisrael (travels) · trad. 1313 BCE (Sinai)
    defines

Key passages(1)

Each passage is tagged by what it does with the idea: explains it, applies it in practice, redefines it with a new meaning, or challenges it. Relevance shows how directly the passage is about this idea.

Deuteronomy · trad. 1313 BCE (Sinai)

Relevance: Very high

כִּֽי־תַשֶּׁ֥ה בְרֵֽעֲךָ֖ מַשַּׁ֣את מְא֑וּמָה לֹא־תָבֹ֥א אֶל־בֵּית֖וֹ לַעֲבֹ֥ט עֲבֹטֽוֹ׃

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