be found in a law code, but would be appropriate in a sermon. Consider Exodus 22:26–27: “If you ever take your neighbor’s garment as a pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down. For that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What will he sleep in? And it will be that when he cries to Me, I will hear, for I am gracious.” Here we have a command, which is all we would have in a law code. Then three other statements are added: a rationale, an argument for compassion,