<t /><p class="bodytext">You must not charge interest on a loan to your fellow Israelite,<n id="1" /> whether on money, food, or anything else that has been loaned with interest.

<p class="poetry">The one who increases his wealth by increasing interest<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">gathers it for someone who is gracious<n id="2" /> to the needy.p>

Do not take interest or profit from him,<n id="1" /> but you must fear your God and your brother must live<n id="2" /> with you.

You must not lend him your money at interest and you must not sell him food for profit.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;If you lend money to any of<n id="1" /> my people who are needy among you, do not be like a moneylender<n id="2" /> to him; do not charge<n id="3" /> him interest.<n id="4" />

<p class="poetry">He does not charge interest when he lends his money.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">He does not take bribes to testify against the innocent.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">The one who lives like this<n id="3" /> will never be upended.p>

does not engage in usury or charge interest,<n id="1" /> but refrains<n id="2" /> from wrongdoing, promotes true justice<n id="3" /> between men,

engages in usury and charges interest. Will he live? He will not! Because he has done all these abominable deeds he will certainly die.<n id="1" /> He will bear the responsibility for his own death.<n id="2" />p>

refrains from wrongdoing,<n id="1" /> does not engage in usury or charge interest, carries out my regulations and follows my statutes. He will not die for his father&#8217;s iniquity;<n id="2" /> he will surely live.

They take bribes within you to shed blood. You engage in usury and charge interest;<n id="1" /> you extort money from your neighbors. You have forgotten me,<n id="2" /> declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="3" />p>