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Exodus 22:25‘If thou dost lend My poor people with thee money, thou art not to him as a usurer; thou dost not lay on him usury;Leviticus 25:36thou takest no usury from him, or increase; and thou hast been afraid of thy God; and thy brother hath lived with thee;Leviticus 25:37thy money thou givest not to him in usury, and for increase thou givest not thy food;Deuteronomy 23:19‘Thou dost not lend in usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of food, usury of anything which is lent on usury.Deuteronomy 23:20To a stranger thou mayest lend in usury, and to thy brother thou dost not lend in usury, so that Jehovah thy God doth bless thee in every putting forth of thy hand on the land whither thou goest in to possess it.Nehemiah 5:1And there is a great cry of the people and their wives, concerning their brethren the Jews,Nehemiah 5:2yea, there are who are saying, ‘Our sons, and our daughters, we—are many, and we receive corn, and eat, and live.’Nehemiah 5:3And there are who are saying, ‘Our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses, we are pledging, and we receive corn for the famine.’Nehemiah 5:4And there are who are saying, ‘We have borrowed money for the tribute of the king, on our fields, and our vineyards;Nehemiah 5:5and now, as the flesh of our brethren is our flesh, as their sons are our sons, and lo, we are subduing our sons and our daughters for servants, and there are of our daughters subdued, and our hand hath no might, and our fields and our vineyards are to others.’Nehemiah 5:6And it is very displeasing to me when I have heard their cry and these words,Nehemiah 5:7and my heart reigneth over me, and I strive with the freemen, and with the prefects, and say to them, ‘Usury one upon another ye are exacting;’ and I set against them a great assembly,Nehemiah 5:8and say to them, ‘We have acquired our brethren the Jews, those sold to the nations, according to the ability that is in us, and ye also sell your brethren, and they have been sold to us!’ and they are silent, and have not found a word.Nehemiah 5:9And I say, ‘Not good is the thing that ye are doing; in the fear of our God do ye not walk, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?Nehemiah 5:10And also, I, my brethren, and my servants, are exacting of them silver and corn; let us leave off, I pray you, this usury.Nehemiah 5:11Give back, I pray you, to them, as to-day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive-yards, and their houses, and the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, of the new wine, and of the oil, that ye are exacting of them.’Nehemiah 5:12And they say, ‘We give back, and of them we seek nothing; so we do as thou art saying.’ And I call the priests, and cause them to swear to do according to this thing;Nehemiah 5:13also, my lap I have shaken, and I say, ‘Thus doth God shake out every man, who doth not perform this thing, from his house, and from his labour; yea, thus is he shaken out and empty;’ and all the assembly say, ‘Amen,’ and praise Jehovah; and the people do according to this thing.Psalm 15:5His silver he hath not given in usury, And a bribe against the innocent Hath not taken; Whoso is doing these is not moved to the age!Proverbs 28:8Whoso is multiplying his wealth by biting and usury, For one favouring the poor doth gather it.Isaiah 24:2And it hath been—as a people so a priest, As the servant so his master, As the maid-servant so her mistress, As the buyer so the seller, As the lender so the borrower, As the usurer so he who is lifting it on himself.
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