Reference: Usury, Interest, Increase
Hastings
At the date of our AV 'usury' had not acquired its modern connotation of exorbitant interest; hence it should be replaced in OT by 'interest,' as in Amer. RV, and as the English Revisers have done in NT (see below). The OT law-codes forbid the taking of interest on loans by one Hebrew from another, see Ex 22:25 (Book of the Covenant), De 23:19 f., Le 25:35-38 (Law of Holiness). Of the two terms constantly associated and in English Version rendered 'usury' (neshek) and 'increase' (tarb
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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.
And if your brother becomes poor and is not able to make a living, then you are to keep him with you, helping him as you would a man from another country who is living among you. Take no interest from him, in money or in goods, but have the fear of your God before you, and let your brother make a living among you. read more. Do not take interest on the money which you let him have or on the food which you give him.
Do not take interest on the money which you let him have or on the food which you give him. I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, that I might be your God.
And if one from another nation living among you gets wealth, and your countryman, at his side, becomes poor and gives himself for money to the man from another nation or to one of his family;
Do not take interest from an Israelite on anything, money or food or any other goods, which you let him have From men of other nations you may take interest, but not from an Israelite: so that the blessing of the Lord your God may be on everything to which you put your hand, in the land which you are about to take as your heritage.
Why, then, did you not put my money in the bank, and at my coming I would have got back what is mine with interest?
Why then did you not put my money in a bank, so that when I came I would get it back with interest?