Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

If you lend money to My people, to the poor among you, you are not to act as a creditor to him; you shall not charge him interest.

King James Version

If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.

Holman Bible

“If you lend money to My people, to the poor person among you, you must not be like a moneylender to him; you must not charge him interest.

International Standard Version

"If you loan money to my people, to the poor among you, don't be like a creditor to them and don't impose interest on them.

A Conservative Version

If thou lend money to any of my people with thee who is poor, thou shall not be to him as a creditor, neither shall ye lay upon him interest.

American Standard Version

If thou lend money to any of my people with thee that is poor, thou shalt not be to him as a creditor; neither shall ye lay upon him interest.

Amplified

“If you lend money to any one of My people with you who is poor, you shall not act as a creditor (professional moneylender) to him; you shall not charge him interest.

Bible in Basic English

If you let any of the poor among my people have the use of your money, do not be a hard creditor to him, and do not take interest.

Darby Translation

if thou lend money to my people, the poor with thee,thou shalt not be to him as a usurer: ye shall charge him no interest.

Julia Smith Translation

If thou shalt lend silver to my people being poor with thee, thou shalt not be to him, as lending; ye shall not put interest upon him.

King James 2000

If you lend money to any of my people who is poor among you, you shall not be to him as a lender, neither shall you charge him interest.

Lexham Expanded Bible

" 'If you lend money [to] my people, [to] the needy with you, you will not be to him as a creditor; you will not {charge him interest}.

Modern King James verseion

If you lend money to one of My people who is poor beside you, you shall not be to him as a money-lender, neither shall you lay upon him interest.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be as an usurer unto him, neither shalt oppress him with usury.

NET Bible

"If you lend money to any of my people who are needy among you, do not be like a moneylender to him; do not charge him interest.

New Heart English Bible

"If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you charge him interest.

The Emphasized Bible

If, silver, thou wilt lend unto my people - unto the humbled one by thee, thou shalt not be to him like one that lendeth on interest, - thou shalt not lay upon him interest.

Webster

If thou shalt lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.

World English Bible

"If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you charge him interest.

Youngs Literal Translation

'If thou dost lend My poor people with thee money, thou art not to him as a usurer; thou dost not lay on him usury;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
If thou lend
לוה 
Lavah 
Usage: 26

כּסף 
Keceph 
Usage: 403

to any of my people
עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

that is poor
עני 
`aniy 
Usage: 75

by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer
נשׁה 
Nashah 
Usage: 12

שׂים שׂוּם 
Suwm 
Usage: 580

Context Readings

Regulations Regarding Foreigners And The Poor

24 and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless. 25 If you lend money to My people, to the poor among you, you are not to act as a creditor to him; you shall not charge him interest. 26 If ever you take your neighbor's cloak in pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down,

Cross References

Psalm 15:5

who does not put out his money at interest and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.

Leviticus 25:35-37

"If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you.

Deuteronomy 23:19-20

"You shall not charge interest on loans to your brother, interest on money, interest on food, interest on anything that is lent for interest

Ezekiel 18:8

does not lend at interest or take any profit, withholds his hand from injustice, executes true justice between man and man,

Nehemiah 5:7

I took counsel with myself, and I brought charges against the nobles and the officials. I said to them, "You are exacting interest, each from his brother." And I held a great assembly against them

Proverbs 28:8

Whoever multiplies his wealth by interest and profit gathers it for him who is generous to the poor.

Ezekiel 18:17

withholds his hand from iniquity, takes no interest or profit, obeys my rules, and walks in my statutes; he shall not die for his father's iniquity; he shall surely live.

2 Kings 4:1

Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, "Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD, but the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves."

2 Kings 4:7

She came and told the man of God, and he said, "Go, sell the oil and pay your debts, and you and your sons can live on the rest."

Nehemiah 5:2-5

For there were those who said, "With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive."

Nehemiah 5:10-11

Moreover, I and my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Let us abandon this exacting of interest.

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.

Ezekiel 18:13

lends at interest, and takes profit; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon himself.

Ezekiel 22:12

In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take interest and profit and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.

Matthew 25:27

Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest.

Luke 19:23

Why then did you not put my money in the bank, and at my coming I might have collected it with interest?'

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