Thematic Bible




Thematic Bible



For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

If you at all take your neighbor's clothing as pledge, you shall deliver it unto him by the time the sun goes down:

No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone in pledge: for he takes a man's living in pledge.

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

And they lay themselves down upon clothes taken in pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.


No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone in pledge: for he takes a man's living in pledge.

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor has come to take unto him my two sons to be slaves.


For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

If you at all take your neighbor's clothing as pledge, you shall deliver it unto him by the time the sun goes down:

No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone in pledge: for he takes a man's living in pledge.

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

And they lay themselves down upon clothes taken in pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.


No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone in pledge: for he takes a man's living in pledge.

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor has come to take unto him my two sons to be slaves.




No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone in pledge: for he takes a man's living in pledge.

If you buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he was married, then his wife shall go out with him. If his master has given him a wife, and she has borne him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. read more.
And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him forever.

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. If you at all take your neighbor's clothing as pledge, you shall deliver it unto him by the time the sun goes down: For that is his only covering, it is his clothing for his skin: in what shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he cries unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.

And if you sell anything unto your neighbor, or buy anything of your neighbor's hand, you shall not oppress one another: According to the number of years after the jubilee you shall buy of your neighbor, and according unto the number of years of crops he shall sell unto you: According to the multitude of years you shall increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years you shall diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of crops does he sell unto you. read more.
You shall not therefore oppress one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am the LORD your God.

And if your brother becomes poor, and falls into poverty among you; then you shall help him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with you. Take you no interest from him, or profit: but fear your God; that your brother may live with you. You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor lend him your food for profit.

And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lends anything unto his neighbor shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbor, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD'S release. Of a foreigner you may exact it again: but that which you lend to your brother your hand shall release;

You shall not charge interest to your brother; interest on money, interest on food, interest on anything that is lent for interest: Unto a stranger you may lend for interest; but unto your brother you shall not lend for interest: that the LORD your God may bless you in all that you set your hand to in the land where you go to possess it.

When you do lend your brother anything, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge. You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you do lend shall bring out the pledge unto you. And if the man be poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge: read more.
In any case you shall deliver him the pledge again when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his own clothing, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness unto you before the LORD your God.

And if you lend to them of whom you hope to receive, what thanks have you? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.


No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone in pledge: for he takes a man's living in pledge.


For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

Be not one of them that gives pledges, or of them that become surety for debts.

No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone in pledge: for he takes a man's living in pledge.

And they lay themselves down upon clothes taken in pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.


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. If you at all take your neighbor's clothing as pledge, you shall deliver it unto him by the time the sun goes down: For that is his only covering, it is his clothing for his skin: in what shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he cries unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.

When you do lend your brother anything, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge. You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you do lend shall bring out the pledge unto you. And if the man be poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge: read more.
In any case you shall deliver him the pledge again when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his own clothing, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness unto you before the LORD your God.


Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy grain, because of the famine. There were also those that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tax, and that upon our lands and vineyards.


No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone in pledge: for he takes a man's living in pledge.

His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the lower millstone.

Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover your locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.


No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone in pledge: for he takes a man's living in pledge.


No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone in pledge: for he takes a man's living in pledge.