Leviticus 25:36
Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you.
Majority Standard Bible
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 must not lend him your silver at interest or sell him your food for profit.
Cross References
Exodus 22:24My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will become widows and your children will be fatherless.
Leviticus 25:17Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.
Nehemiah 5:3Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our homes to get grain during the famine.”
Nehemiah 5:15The governors before me had heavily burdened the people, taking from them bread and wine plus forty shekels of silver. Their servants also oppressed the people. But I did not do this, because of my fear of God.
Proverbs 28:8He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.
Ezekiel 18:13He engages in usury and takes excess interest. Will this son live? He will not! Since he has committed all these abominations, he will surely die; his blood will be on his own head.
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 →