Leviticus 25:36
do not accept usury from him, nor anything more than what you gave. Fear your God, so that your brother may be able to live with you.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.
In Context
37You shall not give him your money by usury, nor exact from him an overabundance of produce.
Cross References
Exodus 22:24And my fury will be enraged, and I will strike you down with the sword. And your wives will become widows, and your sons will become orphans.
Leviticus 25:17Do not be willing to afflict your countrymen, but let each one fear his God. For I am the Lord your God.
Nehemiah 5:3And there were those who were saying: “Let us offer up our fields and vineyards, and our houses, and then we may receive grain during the famine.”
Nehemiah 5:15But the former governors, the ones who had been before me, were a burden to the people, and they took from them bread and wine, and forty shekels of money each day. And their officials also oppressed the people. But I did not do so, out of fear of God.
Proverbs 28:8Whoever piles up riches by usury and profit gathers them for him who will give freely to the poor.
Ezekiel 18:13who lends upon usury, and who takes an increase, then shall he live? He shall not live. Since he has done all these detestable things, he shall certainly die. His blood shall be upon him.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 25:24-39
23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me. 24 And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land. 25 If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold. 26 And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it; 27 Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto… Read the whole commentary →