Thematic Bible: Prohibited from
Thematic Bible
Creditors » Prohibited from » Exacting usury from brethren
"If you lend money to any of my people who are needy among you, do not be like a moneylender to him; do not charge him interest.
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Do not take interest or profit from him, but you must fear your God and your brother must live with you. You must not lend him your money at interest and you must not sell him food for profit.
Creditors » Prohibited from » Violently selecting pledges
When you make any kind of loan to your neighbor, you may not go into his house to claim what he is offering as security.
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Creditors » Prohibited from » Taking millstones in pledge
One must not take either lower or upper millstones as security on a loan, for that is like taking a life itself as security.
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Jews, the » Prohibited from » Following practices of others
When the Lord your God eliminates the nations from the place where you are headed and you dispossess them, you will settle down in their land. After they have been destroyed from your presence, be careful not to be ensnared like they are; do not pursue their gods and say, "How do these nations serve their gods? I will do the same." You must not worship the Lord your God the way they do! For everything that is abhorrent to him, everything he hates, they have done when worshiping their gods. They even burn up their sons and daughters before their gods!
When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, you must not learn the abhorrent practices of those nations. There must never be found among you anyone who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, anyone who practices divination, an omen reader, a soothsayer, a sorcerer, one who casts spells, one who conjures up spirits, a practitioner of the occult, or a necromancer. read more.
Whoever does these things is abhorrent to the Lord and because of these detestable things the Lord your God is about to drive them out from before you. You must be blameless before the Lord your God. Those nations that you are about to dispossess listen to omen readers and diviners, but the Lord your God has not given you permission to do such things.
Whoever does these things is abhorrent to the Lord and because of these detestable things the Lord your God is about to drive them out from before you. You must be blameless before the Lord your God. Those nations that you are about to dispossess listen to omen readers and diviners, but the Lord your God has not given you permission to do such things.
Jews, the » Prohibited from » Covenanting with others
"You must make no covenant with them or with their gods.
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and he delivers them over to you and you attack them, you must utterly annihilate them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy!
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Jews, the » Prohibited from » Marry with others
You must not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,
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But if you ever turn away and make alliances with these nations that remain near you, and intermarry with them and establish friendly relations with them,
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Jews, the » Prohibited from » Associating with others
He said to them, "You know that it is unlawful for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile, yet God has shown me that I should call no person defiled or ritually unclean.
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Nazarites » Prohibited from » Cutting or shaving the head
Finally he told her his secret. He said to her, "My hair has never been cut, for I have been dedicated to God from the time I was conceived. If my head were shaved, my strength would leave me; I would become weak, and be just like all other men."
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Look, you will conceive and have a son. You must never cut his hair, for the child will be dedicated to God from birth. He will begin to deliver Israel from the power of the Philistines."
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"'All the days of the vow of his separation no razor may be used on his head until the time is fulfilled for which he separated himself to the Lord. He will be holy, and he must let the locks of hair on his head grow long.
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Nazarites » Prohibited from » Wine or strong drink
he must separate himself from wine and strong drink, he must drink neither vinegar made from wine nor vinegar made from strong drink, nor may he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or raisins.
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for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He must never drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even before his birth.
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Nazarites » Prohibited from » Grapes or any thing made from the vine
he must separate himself from wine and strong drink, he must drink neither vinegar made from wine nor vinegar made from strong drink, nor may he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or raisins. All the days of his separation he must not eat anything that is produced by the grapevine, from seed to skin.
Nazarites » Prohibited from » Defiling themselves by the dead
"'All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he must not contact a dead body. He must not defile himself even for his father or his mother or his brother or his sister if they die, because the separation for his God is on his head.