Thematic Bible: Credit system
Thematic Bible
Credit system » Debts » Suretyship, (indorsement), the dangers of
My child, if you have pledged to your neighbor, [if] you have bound {yourself} to the stranger, [if] you are snared by the sayings of your mouth, [if] you are caught by the sayings of your mouth,
The righteousness of the blameless will keep his ways straight, but the wicked will fall by his wickedness.
A person who lacks {sense} {pledges}; he becomes security before his neighbor.
Take his garment, for he has given security [to] a stranger, and on behalf of a foreigner--take it as pledge.
Take his garment, for he gives surety [to] a stranger, and to {an adulteress}--[so] take his pledge.
Credit system » Debts » Usury, forbidden
" '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}.
I thought over this in my heart, and then I quarreled with the nobles and the prefects. I said to them, "You yourselves are taking interest from your own brother!" So I called the great assembly against them,
He who augments his wealth with interest and with usury gathers it for him who is kind to the poor.
You must not take interest or usury from him, but you shall revere your God, and your countryman shall live with you.
He does not lend his money at interest, and does not take a bribe against [the] innocent. He who does these [things] will never be shaken.
[and] {he does not charge interest} and he takes no usury, [and] he holds back his hand from injustice [and] he executes judgment of fairness between {persons},
Credit system » Borrowing
Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.
The rich will rule over the poor, and the borrower is a slave of {the lender}.
[The] wicked borrows and does not repay, but [the] righteous [is] gracious and gives.
" 'If a man borrows from his neighbor and it is injured or dies [while] its owner is not with it, he will make restitution.
Then he said to her, "Go, ask for yourself [some] containers from the streets, from all your neighbors. {You must collect as many empty containers as you can}!
It happened as the one [was] felling the log, that the iron ax fell into the water. He called out and said, "Oh, no! My master, it was borrowed!"
Credit system » Lending encouraged
Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.
But you shall certainly open your hand for him, and {you shall willingly lend} [to] him enough to meet his need, {whatever it is}.
[It goes] well [for] a man [who] is gracious and lends, [who] conducts his {business properly}.
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend expecting back nothing, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.
Credit system » Debts » Pledges » Laws concerning
"Indeed, you have required a pledge from your family for nothing, and you have stripped off [the] clothes of [the] naked.
If indeed you require the cloak of your neighbor as a pledge, you will return it to him at sundown,
"A person shall not take a pair of millstones or an upper millstone, for {he is taking necessities of life as a pledge}.
They drive away [the] donkey of orphans; they take [the] widow's ox as a pledge.
They stretch themselves out beside every altar on clothing taken in pledge and they drink wine, bought with fines imposed, in the house of their God.
Credit system » Creditors, general references to
"A person shall not take a pair of millstones or an upper millstone, for {he is taking necessities of life as a pledge}.
They drive away [the] donkey of orphans; they take [the] widow's ox as a pledge.
A certain woman from the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead. Now you know that your servant was a fearer of Yahweh, but the creditor came to take two of my children for himself as slaves.
Credit system » Debts » Insolvency acknowledged
And [when] he began to settle [them], someone was brought to him who owed ten thousand talents. And [because] he did not have [enough] to repay [it], the master ordered him to be sold, and his wife and his children and everything that he had, and to be repaid.
Credit system » Debts » Secured by mortgages
There were also those saying, "We have pledged our fields and our vineyards and our houses so that we can get grain in the famine."
Credit system » Debts » Fraudulent settlement of
And he summoned each one of his own master's debtors [and] said to the first, 'How much do you owe my master?' And he said, 'A hundred measures of olive oil.' So he said to him, 'Take your promissory note and sit down quickly [and] write fifty.'
Credit system » Debts » Not to be repudiated
So she came and told the man of God, and he said, "Go, sell the olive oil and repay your debt. You and your sons can live on what is left over."
Credit system » Debts » Obligation to pay
Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another, for the one who loves someone else has fulfilled the law.