Leviticus 25:36
New International Version
Do not take interest or any profit from them, but fear your God, so that they may continue to live among you.

New Living Translation
Do not charge interest or make a profit at his expense. Instead, show your fear of God by letting him live with you as your relative.

English Standard Version
Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God, that your brother may live beside you.

Berean Standard Bible
Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you.

King James Bible
Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.

New King James Version
Take no usury or interest from him; but fear your God, that your brother may live with you.

New American Standard Bible
Do not take any kind of interest from him, but fear your God, so that your countryman may live with you.

NASB 1995
‘Do not take usurious interest from him, but revere your God, that your countryman may live with you.

NASB 1977
‘Do not take usurious interest from him, but revere your God, that your countryman may live with you.

Legacy Standard Bible
Do not take usurious interest from him, but fear your God, that your brother may live with you.

Amplified Bible
Do not charge him usurious interest, but fear your God [with profound reverence], so your countryman may [continue to] live among you.

Christian Standard Bible
Do not profit or take interest from him, but fear your God and let your brother live among you.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Do not profit or take interest from him, but fear your God and let your brother live among you.

American Standard Version
Take thou no interest of him or increase, but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Do not take a discount and interest from him, and be in awe of your God, and your brother shall live with you.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Take not usury of him nor more than thou gavest: fear thy God, that thy brother may live with thee.

English Revised Version
Take thou no usury of him or increase; but fear thy God: that thy brother may live with thee.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Don't collect interest or make any profit from him. Fear your God by respecting other Israelites' lives.

Good News Translation
Do not charge Israelites any interest, but obey God and let them live near you.

International Standard Version
You are not to take interest or profit from him. Instead, you are to fear your God and let your relative live with you.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Take thou no interest of him or increase; but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.

Literal Standard Version
you take no usury or increase from him; and you have been afraid of your God; and your brother has lived with you;

Majority Standard Bible
Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you.

New American Bible
Do not exact interest in advance or accrued interest, but out of fear of God let your kindred live with you.

NET Bible
Do not take interest or profit from him, but you must fear your God and your brother must live with you.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not take interest in advance or otherwise make a profit from them, but fear your God; let them live with you.

New Heart English Bible
Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God; that your brother may live among you.

Webster's Bible Translation
Take thou no interest of him, or increase; but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.

World English Bible
Take no interest from him or profit; but fear your God, that your brother may live among you.

Young's Literal Translation
thou takest no usury from him, or increase; and thou hast been afraid of thy God; and thy brother hath lived with thee;

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Context
Redemption of the Poor
35Now if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you. 36Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you. 37You must not lend him your silver at interest or sell him your food for profit.…

Cross References
Exodus 22:25
If 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.

Leviticus 25:37
You must not lend him your silver at interest or sell him your food for profit.

Deuteronomy 23:19
Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan.

Deuteronomy 23:20
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 in the land that you are entering to possess.

Nehemiah 5:7
and 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

Psalm 15:5
who lends his money without interest and refuses a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.

Proverbs 28:8
He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.


Treasury of Scripture

Take you no usury of him, or increase: but fear your God; that your brother may live with you.

usury

Exodus 22:25
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.

Deuteronomy 23:19,20
Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury: …

Nehemiah 5:7-10
Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them…

fear

Leviticus 25:17
Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD your God.

Nehemiah 5:9,15
Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies? …

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Leviticus 25
1. the Sabbath of the seventh year
8. The jubilee in the fiftieth year
14. Of oppression
18. A blessing of obedience
23. The redemption of land
29. Of houses
35. Compassion to the poor
39. The usage of bondmen
47. The redemption of servants














(36) Take thou no usury of him, or increase.--The first thing to be done to the impoverished Israelite is to supply him with the means to recover himself without any interest. The authorities during the second Temple defined the words which are translated "usury" (nesheck) and "increase" (tarbith, or marbith) as follows: If a person lends to another a shekel worth four denarii, and gets in return five denarii, or if he lends him two sacks of wheat, and receives back three, this is usury. If one buys wheat for delivery at the market price of 25 denarii a measure, and when it rises to 30 denarii he says to the vendor, "Deliver me the wheat, for I want to sell it and buy wine," and the vendor replies," I will take the wheat at 30 denarii and give thee wine for it," though he has no wine, this is increase. The "increase" lies in the fact that the vendor has no wine at the time, and that he may possibly lose again by the rise in wine. Accordingly the former is a charge upon money, whilst the latter is on products.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Do not
אַל־ (’al-)
Adverb
Strong's 408: Not

take
תִּקַּ֤ח (tiq·qaḥ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 3947: To take

any interest
נֶ֣שֶׁךְ (ne·šeḵ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5392: Interest on a, debt

or profit
וְתַרְבִּ֔ית (wə·ṯar·bîṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8635: Multiplication, progeny

from him,
מֵֽאִתּוֹ֙ (mê·’it·tōw)
Preposition-m | Direct object marker | third person masculine singular
Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

but fear
וְיָרֵ֖אתָ (wə·yā·rê·ṯā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 3372: To fear, to revere, caus, to frighten

your God,
מֵֽאֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ (mê·’ĕ·lō·he·ḵā)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

that your countryman
אָחִ֖יךָ (’ā·ḥî·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 251: A brother, )

may live
וְחֵ֥י (wə·ḥê)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2421: To live, to revive

among you.
עִמָּֽךְ׃ (‘im·māḵ)
Preposition | second person feminine singular
Strong's 5973: With, equally with


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