Leviticus 25:37 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

You shall not lend them your money at interest taken in advance or provide them food at a profit.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

You shall not give him your money at interest nor lend him food at a profit.

American Standard Version (1901)

Thou shalt not give him thy money upon interest, nor give him thy victuals for increase.

Common English Bible

Do not lend a poor Israelite money with interest or lend food at a profit.

Catholic Public Domain Version

You shall not give him your money by usury, nor exact from him an overabundance of produce.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury: nor exact of him any increase of fruits.

Leviticus 25:37 Cross References

Isaiah 24:2

And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the male slave, so with his master; as with the female slave, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with the debtor.

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe is me, my mother, that you ever bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.

Ezekiel 22:12

In you, they take bribes to shed blood; you take both advance interest and accrued interest and make gain of your neighbors by extortion, and you have forgotten me, says the Lord God.

Leviticus 25:36

Do not take interest in advance or otherwise make a profit from them, but fear your God; let them live with you.

Leviticus 25:38

I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, to be your God.