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Leviticus 25:37

in Leviticus 25

You must not lend him your silver at interest or sell him your food for profit.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Thou shalt not give him thy money upon interest, nor give him thy victuals for increase.

KJV

Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.

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This verse in Leviticus 25

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

And thus far this law binds still, but could never be thought binding where money is borrowed for purchase of lands, trade, or other improvements; for there it is reasonable that the lender share with the borrower in the profit. The law here is plainly intended for the relief of the poor, to whom it is sometimes as great a charity to lend freely as to give.

This site's exposition

Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury

on Leviticus 25:37-38

Money and victuals are both named, so the rule reaches the two things a poor man actually borrows. The reason given is the exodus, that the God speaking brought them out of Egypt and gave them Canaan and is their God. A people handed a country they did not buy are told to lend to each other on the same footing.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

A redemption - A right of redemption in the time and manner following. If any of his kin come - Or, If the redeemer come, being near akin to him, who in this was an eminent type of Christ, who was made near akin to us by taking our flesh, that he might perform the work of redemption for us. The years of the sale - That is, from the time of the sale to the jubilee.
Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury,....

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

if thy brother be waxen poor, . . . relieve him--This was a most benevolent provision for the poor and unfortunate, designed to aid them or alleviate the evils of their condition. Whether a native Israelite or a mere sojourner, his richer neighbor was required to give him food, lodging, and a supply of money without usury. Usury was severely condemned (Ps 15:5;

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Lend him thy victuals for increase - i. e. supply him with food for thy own profit.

The words behind it

10 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • אֶ֨ת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • כַּסְפְּךָ֔silver your

    kaspekhaH3701 →403 times

  • לֹֽא־not

    lo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • תִתֵּ֥ןyou will give

    titenH5414 →2011 times

  • ל֖וֹto <the> him

    lo

  • בְּנֶ֑שֶׁךְfor interest

    beneshekhH5392 →

  • וּבְמַרְבִּ֖יתand for profit

    uvemarbitH4768 →

  • לֹא־not

    lo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • תִתֵּ֥ןyou will give

    titenH5414 →2011 times

  • אָכְלֶֽךָ׃food your

    ʾakhelekhaH400 →

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Where this verse is studied

About Leviticus

Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Leviticus: the study guide →Read Leviticus 25 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Calvin, Commentary on the Four Last Books of Moses Arranged in the Form of a Harmony; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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