Exodus 22:25
If you lend money to any of my people among you who are poor, you must not be like a moneylender to him or charge him interest.
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26If you take your neighbor's garment in pledge, you must return it to him before the sun goes down,
Cross References
Leviticus 25:35If your fellow countryman becomes poor, so that he can no longer provide for himself, then you must help him as you would help a foreigner or anyone else living as an outsider among you.
Deuteronomy 24:13You must surely restore to him the pledge by the time the sun goes down, so that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you; it will be righteousness for you before Yahweh your God.
2 Kings 4:7Then she came and told the man of God. He said, “Go, sell the oil; pay your debt, and live with your sons on the rest.”
Nehemiah 5:7Then I thought about this, and brought charges against the nobles and officials. I said to them, “You are exacting interest, each from his own brother.” I held a great assembly against them
Psalms 15:5He does not charge interest when he lends money. 1 He does not take bribes to testify against the innocent. 1 He who does these things will never be shaken.
Jeremiah 15:10Woe to me, my mother! For you have borne me, I who am a man of controversy and argument through all the land. 1 I have not lent, nor has anyone lent to me, but they all curse me. 1
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 →