Leviticus 25:37
Good News Translation
Do not make them pay interest on the money you lend them, and do not make a profit on the food you sell them.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall not lend them your money at interest taken in advance, or provide them food at a profit.

New American Bible
Do not give your money at interest or your food at a profit.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury: nor exact of him any increase of fruits.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury: nor exact of him any increase of fruits.

Context
Redemption of the Poor
36Take not usury of him nor more than thou gavest. Fear thy God, that thy brother may live with thee. 37Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury: nor exact of him any increase of fruits.38I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that I might give you the land of Chanaan, and might be your God.…
Cross References
Leviticus 25:36
Take not usury of him nor more than thou gavest. Fear thy God, that thy brother may live with thee.

Leviticus 25:38
I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that I might give you the land of Chanaan, and might be your God.

Isaiah 24:2
And it shall be as with the people, so with the priest: and as with the servant so with his master: as with the handmaid, so with her mistress: as with the buyer, so with the seller: as with the lender, so with the borrower: as with him that calleth for his money, so with him that oweth.

Jeremiah 15:10
Woe is me, my mother: why hast thou borne me a man of strife, a man of contention to all the earth? I have not lent on usury, neither hath any man lent to me on usury: yet all curse me.

Leviticus 25:36
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