Leviticus 25:36
you take no usury or increase from him; and you have been afraid of your God; and your brother has lived with you;
Literal Standard 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 do not give your money to him in usury, and you do not give your food for increase.
Cross References
Exodus 22:24and My anger has burned, and I have slain you by the sword, and your wives have been widows, and your sons orphans.
Leviticus 25:17and you do not oppress one another, and you have been afraid of your God; for I [am] your God YHWH.
Nehemiah 5:3And there are [those] who are saying, “Our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses, we are pledging, and we receive grain for the famine.”
Nehemiah 5:15the former governors who [are] before me have made themselves heavy on the people, and take of them in bread and wine, besides forty shekels in silver; also, their servants have ruled over the people—and I have not done so, because of the fear of God.
Proverbs 28:8Whoever is multiplying his wealth by biting and usury, || Gathers it for one favoring the poor.
Ezekiel 18:13He has given in usury, and taken increase, || And he lives? He does not live, || He has done all these abominations, || He surely dies, his blood is on 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 →