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 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.
And when thy brother shall be poor, and his hand wavering with thee, hold fast to him; a stranger and sojourner to live with thee. Thou shalt not take from him interest and increase; thou shalt be afraid of thy God; and thy brother to live with thee. read more. Thy silver thou shalt not give to him upon interest, and upon increase thou. shalt not give him thy food.
Thy silver thou shalt not give to him upon interest, and upon increase thou. shalt not give him thy food. I am Jehovah your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give to you the land of Canaan, to be to you for God.
And if the hand of a stranger and sojourner with thee shall attain, and thy brother with him be poor, and he sold to the stranger, a sojourner with thee, or to the root of the stranger's family:
Thou shalt not lend upon interest to thy brother; interest of silver, interest of food, interest of any word which shall be lent on interest To a foreigner thou shalt lend on interest; and to thy brother thou shalt not lend on interest: so that Jehovah thy God shall bless thee in all the stretching forth of thy hand upon the land which thou goest there to possess it
Thou therefore oughtest to have cast my silver to the money changers, and I having come, had received mine own, with interest
And wherefore gavest thou not my silver to the bankers, and I having come had received it with interest?