DEUT1370 It is a positive commandment to give a pledged (pawned) object back to its owner at the time that he needs it as Scripture says, you shall surely restore to him the pledge [this verse]. It is all one whether a person takes an object in pledge (pawn) from his fellow-man through the court or he takes it with his own hand (directly), by force or with the borrower's consent -- he has this duty, and he is to return him a pillow at night; and tools with which he does his work, work clothes that he wears in the daytime, he has to return him by day for the entire day.