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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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