Deuteronomy 23:21

+ 23:21. Deut 23:21 (Deut 23:21-23) [Heb Bible Deut 23:22 (Deut 23:22-24)] (#9.575): T. Not to delay the fulfillment of a vowed offering or free will offering unto Adonai your God / R. Not to withhold payment incurred by any vow When you vow a vow to Adonai your God, you shall not be slack to pay it; + 23:21. Quoted in Matt 5:33 for Adonai your God will surely require it of you; and it would be crime deserving peanlty, sin ·missing the goal· to you.

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In The King James Version

When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.

In Context

20+ 23:20. Deut 23:20 (Deut 23:19-20) [Heb Bible 23:21 (Deut 23:20-21)] (#8.533): T. To lend to a Gentile foreigner / R. To lend to and borrow from idolaters with interest You may lend on interest to a foreigner; but to your brother you shall not lend on interest, that Adonai your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.

22But if you refrain from making a vow, it shall be no crime deserving peanlty, sin ·missing the goal· in you.

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Cross References

Genesis 28:20Jacob [Supplanter] vowed a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on,

Exodus 22:24and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

Numbers 30:1+ 30:1 Hebrew ch 30 v. 2 Moses [Drawn out] spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel [God prevails], saying, “This is the thing which Adonai has enjoined.

Deuteronomy 15:3+ 15:3. Deut 15:3 (Deut 15:1-3, 15:4-6) (#10.609): T. Permission to exact a debt from a foreigner / R. To exact payment for debt from an idolater / R. Press the idolater for payment T. Note: Even after the Sabbatical seventh Year, the Sh'mitta ·Release· Year debt release Of a foreigner you may require it; but whatever of yours is with your brother, your hand shall release.

Psalms 15:5he who does not lend out his money for usury, 2 nor take a bribe against the innocent. 1 He who does these things shall never be shaken.

Psalms 66:13I will come into your temple with burnt offerings. 2 I will pay my vows to you,

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 23:16-25

Protection of Fugitives; The Law Concerning Usury. ( b. c. 1451.) 15 Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: 16 He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him. 17 There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel. 18 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the Lord thy God for… Read the whole commentary →

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