Exodus 22:25
And if you should lend money to your poor brother who is by you, you shall not be hard upon him you shall not exact usury of him.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
26And if you take your neighbor's garment for a pledge, you shall restore it to him before sunset.
Cross References
Leviticus 25:35And if your brother who is with you become poor, and he fail in resources with you, you shall help him as a stranger and a sojourner, and your brother shall live with you.
Deuteronomy 24:13you shall stand without, and the man who is in your debt shall bring the pledge out to you.
2 Kings 4:7And she came and told the man of God: and Elisaie said, Go, and sell the oil, and you shall pay your + 4:7 Gr. interest, pl. debts, and you and your sons shall live of the remaining oil.
Nehemiah 5:7And my heart took counsel within me, and I contended against the nobles, and the princes, and I said to them, Should every man demand of his brother what you⌃ demand? And I appointed against them a great assembly,
Psalms 15:5The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: you are he that restores my inheritance to me. 1
Jeremiah 15:10Woe is me, my mother! you have born me as some man of strife, and at variance with the whole earth; I have not helped others, nor has any one helped me; my strength has failed among them that curse me.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 22:17-25
16 And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife. 17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins. 18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. 19 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death. 20 He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed. 21 Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. 22… Read the whole commentary →