Leviticus 25:36 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³⁶ Take no interest from him or increase, but fear your God; that your brother may live beside you.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁶ Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁶ Charge him no interest or [portion of] increase, but fear your God, so your brother may [continue to] live along with you.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁶ Take thou no interest of him or increase, but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.

Common English Bible

³⁶ Do not take interest from them, or any kind of profit from interest, but fear your God so that your fellow Israelite can survive among you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁶ do not accept usury from him, nor anything more than what you gave. Fear your God, so that your brother may be able to live with you.

Leviticus 25:36 Cross References

Nehemiah 5:15

The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens upon the people, and took from them food and wine, besides forty shekels of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so, because of the fear of God.

Nehemiah 5:3

There were also those who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine.”

Psalm 15:5

who does not put out his money at interest, and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.

Exodus 22:24

and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.

Exodus 22:25

“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor, and you shall not exact interest from him.

Proverbs 28:8

He who augments his wealth by interest and increase gathers it for him who is kind to the poor.

Isaiah 24:2

And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the slave, so with his master; as with the maid, 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 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 18:13

lends at interest, and takes increase; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominable things; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon himself.

Ezekiel 18:17

withholds his hand from iniquity, takes no interest or increase, observes my ordinances, and walks in my statutes; he shall not die for his father's iniquity; he shall surely live.

Ezekiel 18:8

does not lend at interest or take any increase, withholds his hand from iniquity, executes true justice between man and man,

Ezekiel 22:12

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

Leviticus 25:17

You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 25:37

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