Thematic Bible: Prohibited from
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Creditors » Prohibited from » Exacting usury from brethren
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.
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. Do not take interest on the money which you let him have or on the food which you give him.
Creditors » Prohibited from » Violently selecting pledges
If you let your brother have the use of anything which is yours, do not go into his house and take anything of his as a sign of his debt;
Creditors » Prohibited from » Taking millstones in pledge
No one is to take, on account of a debt, the stones with which grain is crushed: for in doing so he takes a man's living.
Jews, the » Prohibited from » Following practices of others
When the people of the land where you are going have been cut off before you by the Lord your God, and you have taken their land and are living in it; After their destruction take care that you do not go in their ways, and that you do not give thought to their gods, saying, How did these nations give worship to their gods? I will do as they did. Do not so to the Lord your God: for everything which is disgusting to the Lord and hated by him they have done in honour of their gods: even burning their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, do not take as your example the disgusting ways of those nations. Let there not be seen among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter go through the fire, or anyone using secret arts, or a maker of strange sounds, or a reader of signs, or any wonder-worker, Or anyone using secret force on people, or putting questions to a spirit, or having secret knowledge, or going to the dead for directions. read more.
For all who do such things are disgusting to the Lord; and because of these disgusting things the Lord your God is driving them out before you. You are to be upright in heart before the Lord your God. For these nations, whose land you are taking, give attention to readers of signs and to those using secret arts: but the Lord your God will not let you do so.
For all who do such things are disgusting to the Lord; and because of these disgusting things the Lord your God is driving them out before you. You are to be upright in heart before the Lord your God. For these nations, whose land you are taking, give attention to readers of signs and to those using secret arts: but the Lord your God will not let you do so.
Jews, the » Prohibited from » Covenanting with others
And when the Lord has given them up into your hands and you have overcome them, give them up to complete destruction: make no agreement with them, and have no mercy on them:
Jews, the » Prohibited from » Marry with others
Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons.
For if you go back, joining yourselves to the rest of these nations who are still among you, getting married to them and living with them and they with you:
Jews, the » Prohibited from » Associating with others
And he said to them, You yourselves have knowledge that it is against the law for a man who is a Jew to be in the company of one who is of another nation; but God has made it clear to me that no man may be named common or unclean:
Nazarites » Prohibited from » Cutting or shaving the head
And opening all his heart to her, he said to her, My head has never been touched by a blade, for I have been separate to God from the day of my birth: if my hair is cut off, then my strength will go from me and I will become feeble, and will be like any other man.
For you are with child and will give birth to a son; his hair is never to be cut, for the child is to be separate to God from his birth; and he will take up the work of freeing Israel from the hands of the Philistines.
All the time he is under his oath let no blade come near his head; till the days while he is separate are ended he is holy and his hair may not be cut.
Nazarites » Prohibited from » Wine or strong drink
He is to keep himself from wine and strong drink, and take no mixed wine or strong drink or any drink made from grapes, or any grapes, green or dry.
For he will be great in the eyes of the Lord; he will not take wine or strong drink; and he will be full of the Spirit of God from his birth.
Nazarites » Prohibited from » Grapes or any thing made from the vine
He is to keep himself from wine and strong drink, and take no mixed wine or strong drink or any drink made from grapes, or any grapes, green or dry. All the time he is separate he may take nothing made from the grape-vine, from its seeds to its skin.
Nazarites » Prohibited from » Defiling themselves by the dead
All the time he is separate he may not come near any dead body. He may not make himself unclean for his father or his mother, his sister or his brother, if death comes to them; because he is under an oath to keep himself separate for God.