Deuteronomy 23:19 BSB

Deuteronomy 23:19

Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan.

BSB

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ASV

Thou shalt not lend upon interest to thy brother; interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of anything that is lent upon interest.

KJV

Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:

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Commentary

3 voices

Ambrose of Milan

On the Duties of the Clergy 3.3.20 (397)

[Scripture] orders money to be returned without usury. It is a mark of kindly feeling to help one who has nothing. It is a sign of a hard nature to extort more than one has given. If one has need of your assistance because he has not enough of his own wherewith to repay a debt, is it not a wicked thing to demand under the guise of kindly feeling a larger sum from him who has not the means to pay off a lesser amount?

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The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

This among them would be little or no loss to the lender, because their land was so divided, their estates so settled, and there was so little a merchandise among them, that it was seldom or never they had occasion to borrow any great sums, but only for the subsistence of their family, or some uncommon emergence.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

By this it appears that usury is not in itself oppressive; for they must not oppress a stranger, and yet might exact usury from him. The performance of the vows wherewith we have bound our souls is here required; and it is a branch of the law of nature,

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
לֹא־	lo'-	not	H3808 →
תַשִּׁ֣יךְ	ta.Shikh	you will charge interest	H5391 →
לְאָחִ֔יךָ	le.'a.Chi.kha	to countryman your	H251 →
נֶ֥שֶׁךְ	Ne.shekh	interest of	H5392 →
כֶּ֖סֶף	Ke.sef	money	H3701 →
נֶ֣שֶׁךְ	Ne.shekh	interest of	H5392 →
אֹ֑כֶל	'O.khel	food	H400 →
נֶ֕שֶׁךְ	Ne.shekh	interest of	H5392 →
כָּל־	kol-	any	H3605 →
דָּבָ֖ר	da.Var	thing	H1697 →
אֲשֶׁ֥ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
יִשָּֽׁךְ׃	yi.Shakh	someone will pay interest	H5391 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 15:5
who lends his money without interest and refuses a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.
leads to
- Exodus 22:25
  If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Ezekiel 18:8
  He does not engage in usury or take excess interest, but he withholds his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between men.
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Deuteronomy 16:19
  Do not deny justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.
- Ezekiel 22:12
  In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.
- Matthew 7:21–25
  Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
Through
Exodus 22:25
If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.
leads to
- Leviticus 25:35–37
  Now if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you.
- Psalms 15:5
  who lends his money without interest and refuses a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.
- Deuteronomy 23:19–20
  Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan.

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Where the connections lead

04Related verses

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06About Deuteronomy

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Deuteronomy