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Tuesday, August 26th, 2025
the Week of Proper 16 / Ordinary 21
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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

申命记 23:20

借給外族人,你倒可以取利;只是借給你的兄弟,你就不可取利;好使耶和華你的 神,在你要去得為業的地上,和你手裡所辦的一切事上,賜福給你。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Aliens;   Creditor;   Interest;   Lending;   Strangers;   Usury;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Creditors;   Strangers in Israel;   Usury or Interest;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Loans;   Usury;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Lending;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Money;   Wealth;   Work;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Usury;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Custom;   Loan;   Stranger;   Usury;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Banking;   Interest;   Loan;   Usury;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Leviticus;   Poverty;   Usury, Interest, Increase;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Trade and Commerce;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Usury;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bank;   Borrowing;   Debt;   Foreigner;   Hand;   Interest;   Lend;   Neighbor;   Stranger and Sojourner (in the Old Testament);   Trade;   Usury;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Commerce;   Moses of Paris;   Sidra;   Usury;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
借 给 外 邦 人 可 以 取 利 , 只 是 借 给 你 弟 兄 不 可 取 利 。 这 样 , 耶 和 华 ─ 你   神 必 在 你 所 去 得 为 业 的 地 上 和 你 手 里 所 办 的 一 切 事 上 赐 福 与 你 。

Contextual Overview

15 If an escaped slave comes to you, do not hand over the slave to his master. 16 Let the slave live with you anywhere he likes, in any town he chooses. Do not mistreat him. 17 No Israelite man or woman must ever become a temple prostitute. 18 Do not bring a male or female prostitute's pay to the Temple of the Lord your God to pay what you have promised to the Lord , because the Lord your God hates prostitution. 19 If you loan your fellow Israelites money or food or anything else, don't make them pay back more than you loaned them. 20 You may charge foreigners, but not fellow Israelites. Then the Lord your God will bless everything you do in the land you are entering to take as your own. 21 If you make a promise to give something to the Lord your God, do not be slow to pay it, because the Lord your God demands it from you. Do not be guilty of sin. 22 But if you do not make the promise, you will not be guilty. 23 You must do whatever you say you will do, because you chose to make the promise to the Lord your God. 24 If you go into your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat as many grapes as you wish, but do not put any grapes into your basket.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a stranger: Deuteronomy 14:21, Deuteronomy 15:3, Leviticus 19:33, Leviticus 19:34

that the: Deuteronomy 15:10, Proverbs 19:17, Isaiah 1:19, Luke 14:14, 1 Corinthians 15:58

Reciprocal: Exodus 22:14 - borrow Exodus 22:25 - General Leviticus 25:36 - usury Nehemiah 5:7 - Ye exact usury Psalms 15:5 - putteth Jeremiah 15:10 - I have Ezekiel 18:8 - hath not Matthew 25:27 - with Luke 19:23 - usury

Cross-References

Genesis 23:7
Abraham rose and bowed to the people of the land, the Hittites.
Genesis 23:10
Ephron was sitting among the Hittites at the city gate. He answered Abraham,
Genesis 23:14
Ephron answered Abraham,
Genesis 25:9
His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah in the field of Ephron east of Mamre. (Ephron was the son of Zohar the Hittite.)
Genesis 50:5
‘When my father was near death, I made a promise to him that I would bury him in a cave in the land of Canaan, in a burial place that he cut out for himself. So please let me go and bury my father, and then I will return.'"
Genesis 50:13
They carried his body to the land of Canaan and buried it in the cave in the field of Machpelah near Mamre. Abraham had bought this cave and field from Ephron the Hittite to use as a burial place.
2 Samuel 24:24
But the king answered Araunah, "No, I will pay you for the land. I won't offer to the Lord my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing." So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for one and one-fourth pounds of silver.
2 Kings 21:18
Manasseh died and was buried in the garden of his own palace, the garden of Uzza. Then Manasseh's son Amon became king in his place.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury,.... To any Gentile, though some Jewish writers except the Edomites and Ishmaelites, as being brethren, and restrain it to the seven nations of Canaan; but it seems to design one that was not an Israelite, or a proselyte of righteousness, and especially to regard such that traded and merchandised, as the Gentiles very much did, and especially their neighbours the Phoenicians; and of such it was lawful to take interest, as it was but reasonable, when they gained much by the money they lent them, and as it is but reasonable should be the case among Christians in such circumstances; this is to be regarded not as a precept, but as a permission:

but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury; which is repeated, that it might be taken notice of, and carefully observed:

that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand unto, in the land whither thou goest to possess it; for their charity, humanity, and the kind usage of their poor brethren in distress, would not pass unnoticed by the Lord; but he would make the land they tilled fruitful, and their vineyards and oliveyards to produce abundance, and their flocks and their herds to increase greatly, which would be sufficient and more than a recompence for all that they had freely lent unto their brethren, without taking any usury of them.


 
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