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42 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1897 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Exodus 21:2Torrey OFTEN EXACTED DEBTS — By selling the debtor or taking him for a servant
If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
- Exodus 22:25Torrey PROHIBITED FROM — Exacting usury from brethren
¶ If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.
- Exodus 22:26Torrey To return before sunset, garments taken in pledge
If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
- Exodus 22:27Torrey To return before sunset, garments taken in pledge
For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.
- Leviticus 25:36Torrey PROHIBITED FROM — Exacting usury from brethren
Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.
- Leviticus 25:37Torrey PROHIBITED FROM — Exacting usury from brethren
Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.
- Deuteronomy 15:2Torrey PROHIBITED FROM — Exacting debts from brethren during sabbatical year
And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD’s release.
- Deuteronomy 15:3Torrey PROHIBITED FROM — Exacting debts from brethren during sabbatical year
Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;
- Deuteronomy 23:20Torrey Might take interest from strangers
Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 24:6Torrey PROHIBITED FROM — Taking millstones in pledge
¶ No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man’s life to pledge.
- Deuteronomy 24:10Torrey MIGHT DEMAND — Pledges
¶ When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
- Deuteronomy 24:11Torrey MIGHT DEMAND — Pledges
Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.
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- Deuteronomy 24:12 Torrey To return before sunset, garments taken in pledge
- Deuteronomy 24:13 Torrey To return before sunset, garments taken in pledge
- 1 Samuel 22:2 Torrey Were often defrauded
- 2 Kings 4:1 Torrey OFTEN EXACTED DEBTS — By selling the debtor's family
- Nehemiah 5:3 Torrey MIGHT DEMAND — Mortgages on property
- Nehemiah 5:7–9 Torrey Often cruel in exacting debts
- Nehemiah 5:10–12 Torrey Sometimes entirely remitted debts
- Job 24:3–9 Torrey Often cruel in exacting debts
- Job 24:9 Torrey OFTEN EXACTED DEBTS — By selling the debtor's family
- Proverbs 6:1 Torrey MIGHT DEMAND — Security of others
- Proverbs 11:15 Torrey OFTEN EXACTED DEBTS — From the sureties
- Proverbs 22:26 Torrey MIGHT DEMAND — Security of others
- Proverbs 22:27 Torrey MIGHT DEMAND — Pledges
- Ezekiel 18:7 Torrey To return before sunset, garments taken in pledge
- Ezekiel 18:12 Torrey To return before sunset, garments taken in pledge
- Matthew 5:25 Torrey OFTEN EXACTED DEBTS — By imprisonment
- Matthew 5:26 Torrey OFTEN EXACTED DEBTS — By imprisonment
- Matthew 18:23 Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE OF — God's claim upon men
- Matthew 18:25 Torrey OFTEN EXACTED DEBTS — By selling the debtor or taking him for a servant
- Matthew 18:27 Torrey Sometimes entirely remitted debts
- Matthew 18:28–30 Torrey Often cruel in exacting debts
- Matthew 18:34 Torrey OFTEN EXACTED DEBTS — By imprisonment
- Luke 7:41 Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE OF — God's claim upon men
- Luke 7:42 Torrey Sometimes entirely remitted debts
- Luke 7:47 Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE OF — God's claim upon men
- Luke 16:5–7 Torrey Were often defrauded
- Luke 16:6 Torrey MIGHT DEMAND — Bills or promissory notes
- Luke 16:7 Torrey MIGHT DEMAND — Bills or promissory notes
- Galatians 5:3 Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE OF — The demands of the law
- Philemon 1:18 Torrey Defined
In the topical indexes
Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897) · 50 references, grouped by sub-topic
- Defined Phm 1:18
- MIGHT DEMAND
- To return before sunset, garments taken in pledge Ex 22:26,27; De 24:12,13; Eze 18:7,12
- PROHIBITED FROM
- Might take interest from strangers De 23:20
- Sometimes entirely remitted debts Ne 5:10-12; Mt 18:27; Lu 7:42
- Often cruel in exacting debts Ne 5:7-9; Job 24:3-9; Mt 18:28-30
- OFTEN EXACTED DEBTS
- Were often defrauded 1Sa 22:2; Lu 16:5-7
- ILLUSTRATIVE OF
Texts: Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.