God Restores Your Soul Each Night So Restore the Pledge by Sunset

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 350:5

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(Exodus 22:25) "If you take a pledge." The Holy One, blessed be He, said: You — how much you owe Me! You sin before Me, and I am patient with you. Your soul ascends to Me every single night and renders an account, and it is liable, yet I restore your soul to you. So you too, even though he owes you, until the sun sets you shall return it to him.

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