Redemption of the Poor
Leviticus 25:36
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you.
- KJV
- Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.
- WEB
- Take no interest from him or profit; but fear your God, that your brother may live among you.
- ASV
- Take thou no interest of him or increase, but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.
- LSV
- you take no usury or increase from him; and you have been afraid of your God; and your brother has lived with you;
- YLT
- thou takest no usury from him, or increase; and thou hast been afraid of thy God; and thy brother hath lived with thee;
- DBY
- Thou shalt take no usury nor increase of him; and thou shalt fear thy God; that thy brother may live beside thee.Elohim
- DRC
- Take not usury of him nor more than thou gavest: fear thy God, that thy brother may live with thee.
- GNV
- Thou shalt take no vsurie of him, nor vantage, but thou shalt feare thy God, that thy brother may liue with thee.
- JPS
- Take thou no interest of him or increase; but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.
- LXXE
- Thou shalt not receive from him interest, nor increase: and thou shalt fear thy God: I am the Lord: and thy brother shall live with thee.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- אַל־תִּקַּ֤ח מֵֽאִתּוֹ֙ נֶ֣שֶׁךְ וְתַרְבִּ֔ית וְיָרֵ֖אתָ מֵֽאֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ וְחֵ֥י אָחִ֖יךָ עִמָּֽךְ׃
- LXX-Br
- Οὐ λήψῃ παρʼ αὐτοῦ τόκον, οὐδὲ ἐπὶ πλήθει· καὶ φοβηθήσῃ τὸν Θεόν σου· ἐγὼ Κύριος· καὶ ζήσεται ὁ ἀδελφός σου μετὰ σοῦ.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Exodus 22:25If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.
- Deuteronomy 23:19–20Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan. You may charge a foreigner interest, but not your brother, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything to which you put your hand…
- Ezekiel 18:8He does not engage in usury or take excess interest, but he withholds his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between men.
- Ezekiel 18:13He engages in usury and takes excess interest. Will this son live? He will not! Since he has committed all these abominations, he will surely die; his blood will be on his own head.
- Leviticus 25:17Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.
- Ezekiel 18:17He withholds his hand from harming the poor and takes no interest or usury. He keeps My ordinances and follows My statutes. Such a man will not die for his father’s iniquity. He will surely live.
- Nehemiah 5:7–10and after serious thought I rebuked the nobles and officials, saying, “You are exacting usury from your own brothers!” So I called a large assembly against them and said, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish…
- Proverbs 28:8He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.
- Nehemiah 5:15The governors before me had heavily burdened the people, taking from them bread and wine plus forty shekels of silver. Their servants also oppressed the people, but I did not do this because of my fear of God.
- Ezekiel 22:12In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.
- Psalms 15:5who lends his money without interest and refuses a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.
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