Thematic Bible: The credit system
Thematic Bible
Business life » The credit system » Borrowing
Give to him who asks you, and don't turn away him who desires to borrow from you.
The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.
The wicked borrow, and don't pay back, but the righteous give generously.
"If a man borrows anything of his neighbor's, and it is injured, or dies, its owner not being with it, he shall surely make restitution.
Then he said, "Go, borrow containers from of all your neighbors, even empty containers. Don't borrow just a few.
But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water. Then he cried, and said, "Alas, my master! For it was borrowed."
Business life » The credit system » Lending encouraged
Give to him who asks you, and don't turn away him who desires to borrow from you.
but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need [in that] which he wants.
It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.
Business life » The credit system » Creditors, general references to
No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes [a man's] life to pledge.
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves."
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