Thematic Bible: The credit system


Thematic Bible






And if anyone borrows anything of his neighbour, and it is hurt or dies, its owner not being with it, he shall surely make it good.

And he said, Go, borrow vessels from all thy neighbours, empty vessels; borrow not a few.

But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water, and he cried and said, Alas, master! It was borrowed.



but thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he lacks.

He is ever merciful and lends, and his seed is a blessing.




No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone for a pledge, for he takes a man's life to pledge.

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