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Description: Exodus 22:25
NET Translation: “If you lend money to any of my people who are needy among you, do not be like a moneylender to him; do not charge him interest.
DARBY Translation: If thou lend money to my people, the poor with thee, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer: ye shall charge him no interest.
KJV Translation: 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.
Keywords: Usury, Profit, Interest
Description: Leviticus 25:36
NET Translation: Do not take interest or profit from him, but you must fear your God and your brother must live with you.
DARBY Translation: Thou shalt take no Usury nor increase of him; and thou shalt fear thy God; that thy brother may live beside thee.
KJV Translation: Take thou no Usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.
Description: Leviticus 25:37
NET Translation: You must not lend him your money at interest and you must not sell him food for profit.
DARBY Translation: Thy money shalt thou not give him upon Usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.
KJV Translation: Thou shalt not give him thy money upon Usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.
Description: Deuteronomy 23:19
NET Translation: You must not charge interest on a loan to your fellow Israelite, whether on money, food, or anything else that has been loaned with interest.
DARBY Translation: Thou shalt take no interest of thy brother, interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of anything that can be lent upon interest:
KJV Translation: Thou shalt not lend upon Usury to thy brother; Usury of money, Usury of victuals, Usury of any thing that is lent upon Usury:
Verse Intro: Making and Keeping Proper Commitments
Description: Deuteronomy 23:20
NET Translation: You may lend with interest to a foreigner, but not to your fellow Israelite; if you keep this command the Lord your God will bless you in all you undertake in the land you are about to enter to possess.
DARBY Translation: of a foreigner thou mayest take interest, but of thy brother thou shalt not take interest; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the business of thy hand in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
KJV Translation: 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.
Keywords: Assembly
Description: Nehemiah 5:7
NET Translation: I considered these things carefully and then registered a complaint with the wealthy and the officials. I said to them, “Each one of you is seizing the collateral from your own countrymen!” Because of them I called for a great public assembly.
DARBY Translation: And I consulted with myself; and I remonstrated with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, Ye exact Usury, every one of his brother! And I set a great assembly against them.
KJV Translation: 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.
Keywords: Might, Money, Pray
Description: Nehemiah 5:10
NET Translation: Even I and my relatives and my associates are lending them money and grain. But let us abandon this practice of seizing collateral!
DARBY Translation: I also, my brethren and my servants, we might exact Usury of them, money and corn. I pray you, let us leave off this Usury.
KJV Translation: I likewise, [and] my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this Usury.
Keywords: Money, Reward
Description: Psalms 15:5
NET Translation: He does not charge interest when he lends his money. He does not take bribes to testify against the innocent. The one who lives like this will never be shaken.
DARBY Translation: [He that] putteth not out his money to Usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these [things] shall never be moved.
KJV Translation: [He that] putteth not out his money to Usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these [things] shall never be moved.
Keywords: Usury
Description: Proverbs 28:8
NET Translation: The one who increases his wealth by increasing interest gathers it for someone who is gracious to the needy.
DARBY Translation: He that by Usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance gathereth it for him that is gracious to the poor.
KJV Translation: He that by Usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
Keywords: Usury
Description: Isaiah 24:2
NET Translation: Everyone will suffer—the priest as well as the people, the master as well as the servant, the elegant lady as well as the female attendant, the seller as well as the buyer, the borrower as well as the lender, the creditor as well as the debtor.
DARBY Translation: And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of Usury, so with him from whom Usury is taken.
KJV Translation: And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of Usury, so with the giver of Usury to him.
Keywords: Man, Strife, Woe
Description: Jeremiah 15:10
NET Translation: I said, “Oh, mother, how I regret that you ever gave birth to me! I am always starting arguments and quarrels with the people of this land. I have not lent money to anyone and I have not borrowed from anyone. Yet all these people are treating me with contempt.”
DARBY Translation: Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole land! I have not lent on Usury, nor have they lent to me on Usury; [yet] every one of them doth curse me.
KJV Translation: Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on Usury, nor men have lent to me on Usury; [yet] every one of them doth curse me.
Keywords: Hand, Judgment, Man
Description: Ezekiel 18:8
NET Translation: does not engage in Usury or charge interest, but refrains from wrongdoing, promotes true justice between men,
DARBY Translation: he hath not given forth upon Usury, nor taken increase; he hath withdrawn his hand from unrighteousness, hath executed true judgment between man and man,
KJV Translation: He [that] hath not given forth upon Usury, neither hath taken any increase, [that] hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man,
Keywords: Blood
Description: Ezekiel 18:13
NET Translation: engages in Usury, and charges interest. Will he live? He will not! Because he has done all these abominable deeds he will certainly die. He will bear the responsibility for his own death.
DARBY Translation: given forth upon Usury, and taken increase; shall he then live? He shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall certainly die; his blood shall be upon him.
KJV Translation: Hath given forth upon Usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.
Keywords: Hand, Usury
Description: Ezekiel 18:17
NET Translation: refrains from wrongdoing, does not engage in Usury or charge interest, carries out my regulations, and follows my statutes. He will not die for his father’s iniquity; he will surely live.
DARBY Translation: he hath withdrawn his hand from the poor, hath not received Usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, [and] walked in my statutes: he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall certainly live.
KJV Translation: [That] hath taken off his hand from the poor, [that] hath not received Usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.
Keywords: Usury
Description: Ezekiel 22:12
NET Translation: They take bribes within you to shed blood. You engage in Usury and charge interest; you extort money from your neighbors. You have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign Lord.
DARBY Translation: In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken Usury and increase, and thou hast overreached thy neighbours by oppression, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord Jehovah.
KJV Translation: In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken Usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.
Keywords: Money, Test
Description: Matthew 25:27
NET Translation: Then you should have deposited my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have received my money back with interest!
DARBY Translation: thou oughtest then to have put my money to the money-changers, and when I came I should have got what is mine with interest.
KJV Translation: “Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and” [then] “at my coming I should have received mine own with Usury.”
Keywords: Might, Money
Description: Luke 19:23
NET Translation: Why then didn’t you put my money in the bank, so that when I returned I could have collected it with interest?’
DARBY Translation: And why didst thou not give my money to [the] bank; and *I* should have received it, at my coming, with interest?
KJV Translation: “Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with Usury?”