Exodus 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.

Ex 2:23,24; Ex 34:6; 2Ch 30:9; Ps 34:6; Ps 72:12; Ps 86:15; Ps 136:10,11; Isa 19:20

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.”