The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

They will lend to you but you will not lend to them; they will become the head and you will become the tail!

All day long he shows compassion and lends to others, and his children are blessed.

Everyone will suffer – the priest as well as the people, the master as well as the servant, the elegant lady as well as the female attendant, the seller as well as the buyer, the borrower as well as the lender, the creditor as well as the debtor.

Evil men borrow, but do not repay their debt, but the godly show compassion and are generous.

It goes well for the one who generously lends money, and conducts his business honestly.

The one who is gracious to the poor lends to the Lord, and the Lord will repay him for his good deed.

When they stumble, they will be granted some help. But many will unite with them deceitfully.

Then there were those who said, “We have borrowed money to pay our taxes to the king on our fields and our vineyards.

Even Assyria has allied with them, lending its strength to the descendants of Lot. (Selah)

The Lord will open for you his good treasure house, the heavens, to give you rain for the land in its season and to bless all you do; you will lend to many nations but you will not borrow from any.

“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.

“Bring with you your brothers, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, so that they may join with you and minister to you while you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony.

They must join with you, and they will be responsible for the care of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the tent, but no unauthorized person may approach you.

The Lord will certainly have compassion on Jacob; he will again choose Israel as his special people and restore them to their land. Resident foreigners will join them and unite with the family of Jacob.

They will ask the way to Zion; they will turn their faces toward it. They will come and bind themselves to the Lord in a lasting covenant that will never be forgotten.

She became pregnant again and had another son. She said, “Now this time my husband will show me affection, because I have given birth to three sons for him.” That is why he was named Levi.

Therefore, because of the account found in this letter and what they had faced in this regard and what had happened to them, the Jews established as binding on themselves, their descendants, and all who joined their company that they should observe these two days without fail, just as written and at the appropriate time on an annual basis.

So I recommend the enjoyment of life, for there is nothing better on earth for a person to do except to eat, drink, and enjoy life. So joy will accompany him in his toil during the days of his life which God gives him on earth.

No foreigner who becomes a follower of the Lord should say, ‘The Lord will certainly exclude me from his people.’ The eunuch should not say, ‘Look, I am like a dried-up tree.’”