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Exodus 22:27

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22:27 for it is his only covering – it is his garment for his body. 1  What else can he sleep in? 2  And 3  when he cries out to me, I will hear, for I am gracious.

1 tn Heb “his skin.”

2 tn Literally the text reads, “In what can he lie down?” The cloak would be used for a covering at night to use when sleeping. The garment, then, was the property that could not be taken and not given back – it was the last possession. The modern idiom of “the shirt off his back” gets at the point being made here.

3 tn Heb “and it will be.”



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