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set aside your money

Implied here is that your promise and the circumstances forced you to save up your money. Alternate translation: "had to save up some of your money" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit)

a guarantee for your neighbor's loan

Possible meanings are 1) your neighbor may come to you to ask for a loan or 2) your neighbor wants to take out a loan from someone else, but you promise to pay the lender back if your neighbor cannot.

neighbor

This same Hebrew word can also mean "friend."