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Exodus 22:25

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

‘If you lend silver to my people, to the poor person among you, you must not be like a creditor to him; you must not charge him interest.

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He doesn’t lend at interest or for profit  but keeps his hand from injustice and carries out true justice between men.


Whoever increases his wealth through excessive interest collects it for one who is kind to the poor.


After seriously considering the matter, I accused the nobles and officials, saying to them, ‘Each of you is charging his countrymen interest.’  So I called a large assembly against them


He keeps his hand from harming the poor, not taking interest or profit on a loan. He practises my ordinances and follows my statutes. Such a person will not die for his father’s iniquity. He will certainly live.


and lends at interest or for profit, will he live? He will not live! Since he has committed all these detestable acts, he will certainly die. His death will be his own fault.  ,


Woe is me, my mother, that you gave birth to me, a man who incites dispute and conflict in all the land. I did not lend or borrow, yet everyone curses me.


She went and told the man of God,  and he said, ‘Go and sell the oil and pay your debt; you and your sons can live on the rest.’


One of the wives of the sons of the prophets  cried out to Elisha, ‘Your servant, my husband, has died. You know that your servant feared the Lord.  Now the creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves.’


why, then, didn’t you put my money in the bank? And when I returned, I would have collected it with interest.”


then   you should have deposited my money with the bankers, and I would have received my money   back with interest when I returned.


People who live in you accept bribes in order to shed blood.  You take interest and profit on a loan and brutally extort your neighbours.  You have forgotten me.  This is the declaration of the Lord God.


‘If there is a poor person among you, one of your brothers within any of your city gates in the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not be hard-hearted or tight-fisted towards your poor brother.


Be sure to return it  to him at sunset. Then he will sleep in it and bless you, and this will be counted as righteousness to you before the Lord your God.


He doesn’t oppress anyone  but returns his collateral to the debtor.  He does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry  and covers the naked with clothing.


They stretch out beside every altar on garments taken as collateral, and in the house of their God they drink wine obtained through fines.





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