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Deuteronomy 23:20

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You may charge foreigners, but not fellow Israelites. Then the Lord your God will bless everything you do in the land you are entering to take as your own.

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After I thought about it, I accused the important people and the leaders, “You are charging your own brothers too much interest.” So I called a large meeting to deal with them.

They do not charge interest on money they lend and do not take money to hurt innocent people. Whoever does all these things will never be destroyed.

And I will be very angry and kill you in war. Then your wives will become widows, and your children will become orphans.

“If you lend money to one of my people who is poor, do not treat him as a moneylender would. Charge him nothing for using your money.

Being kind to the poor is like lending to the Lord; he will reward you for what you have done.

If you become willing and obey me, you will eat good crops from the land.

At that time the same thing will happen to everyone: to common people and priests, to slaves and masters, to women slaves and their women masters, to buyers and sellers, to those who borrow and those who lend, to bankers and those who owe the bank.

He does not lend money to get too much interest or profit. He keeps his hand from doing wrong. He judges fairly between one person and another.

Do not charge him any interest on money you loan to him, but respect your God; let the poor live among you.

Then you will be blessed, because they have nothing and cannot pay you back. But you will be repaid when the good people rise from the dead.”

So my dear brothers and sisters, stand strong. Do not let anything move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your work in the Lord is never wasted.

Do not eat anything you find that is already dead. You may give it to a foreigner living in your town, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. But you are holy people, who belong to the Lord your God. Do not cook a baby goat in its mother’s milk.

Give freely to the poor person, and do not wish that you didn’t have to give. The Lord your God will bless your work and everything you touch.

You may make a foreigner pay what is owed to you, but you must not collect what another Israelite owes you.

The Lord will open up his heavenly storehouse so that the skies send rain on your land at the right time, and he will bless everything you do. You will lend to other nations, but you will not need to borrow from them.




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