Leviticus 25:36

Easy-to-Read Version

Don't charge them any interest on money you might loan to them. Respect your God and let those from your own country live with you.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Take no interest of him or increase, but fear your God; that your brother may live with you.

King James Version
Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.

Lexham English Bible
You must not take interest or usury from him, but you shall revere your God, and your countryman shall live with you.

New Century Version
Do not charge him any interest on money you loan to him, but respect your God; let the poor live among you.

New English Translation
Do not take interest or profit from him, but you must fear your God and your brother must live with you.

Amplified Bible
'Do not charge him usurious interest, but fear your God [with profound reverence], so your countryman may [continue to] live among you.

New American Standard Bible
'Do not take any kind of interest from him, but fear your God, so that your countryman may live with you.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou shalt take no vsurie of him, nor vantage, but thou shalt feare thy God, that thy brother may liue with thee.

Legacy Standard Bible
Do not take usurious interest from him, but fear your God, that your brother may live with you.

Contemporary English Version
Don't take advantage of them by charging any kind of interest or selling them food for profit. Instead, honor me by letting them stay where they now live.

Complete Jewish Bible
Do not charge him interest or otherwise profit from him, but fear your God, so that your brother can continue living with you.

Darby Translation
Thou shalt take no usury nor increase of him; and thou shalt fear thy God; that thy brother may live beside thee.

English Standard Version
Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God, that your brother may live beside you.

George Lamsa Translation
You shall not take a discount of him or usury; but fear your God, that your brother may live with you.

Good News Translation
Do not charge Israelites any interest, but obey God and let them live near you.

Christian Standard Bible®
Do not profit or take interest from him, but fear your God and let your brother live among you.

Literal Translation
You shall take no interest or increase from him, and you shall fear your God; and the life of your brother is with you.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and thou shalt take no vsury of him, ner more then thou hast geue, but shalt feare thy God, that thy brother maye lyue besydes the.

American Standard Version
Take thou no interest of him or increase, but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.

Bible in Basic English
Take no interest from him, in money or in goods, but have the fear of your God before you, and let your brother make a living among you.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And thou shalt take none vsurie of hym, or vantage: but thou shalt feare thy God, that thy brother may lyue with thee.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Take thou no interest of him or increase; but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.

King James Version (1611)
Take thou no vsurie of him, or increase: but feare thy God, that thy brother may liue with thee.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thou shalt not receive from him interest, nor increase: and thou shalt fear thy God: I am the Lord: and thy brother shall live with thee.

English Revised Version
Take thou no usury of him or increase; but fear thy God: that thy brother may live with thee.

Berean Standard Bible
Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
take thou not vsuris of hym, nether more than thou hast youe; drede thou thi God, that thi brothir mai lyue anentis thee.

Young's Literal Translation
thou takest no usury from him, or increase; and thou hast been afraid of thy God; and thy brother hath lived with thee;

Update Bible Version
Take no interest of him or increase, but fear your God; that your brother may live with you.

Webster's Bible Translation
Take thou no interest of him, or increase; but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.

World English Bible
Take no interest of him or increase, but fear your God; that your brother may live with you.

New King James Version
Take no usury or interest from him; but fear your God, that your brother may live with you.

New Living Translation
Do not charge interest or make a profit at his expense. Instead, show your fear of God by letting him live with you as your relative.

New Life Bible
Do not make him pay for the use of the money he owes you. But fear your God, so your brother may live with you.

New Revised Standard
Do not take interest in advance or otherwise make a profit from them, but fear your God; let them live with you.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Do not accept from him interest or profit, but stand thou in awe of thy God, - so shall thy brother live with thee.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Take not usury of him nor more than thou gavest. Fear thy God, that thy brother may live with thee.

Revised Standard Version
Take no interest from him or increase, but fear your God; that your brother may live beside you.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Do not take usurious interest from him, but revere your God, that your countryman may live with you.

Contextual Overview

²³ "The land really belongs to me, so you cannot sell it permanently. You are only foreigners and travelers living on my land with me. ²⁴ People might sell their land, but the family will always get their land back. ²⁵ If someone in your country becomes very poor and must sell their property, a close relative must come and buy it back. ²⁶ If there is not a close relative to buy back the land, the person might get enough money to buy it back. ²⁷ Then the years must be counted since the land was sold. That number must be used to decide how much to pay for the land. The person must then buy back the land, and it will be their property again. ²⁸ But if this first owner cannot find enough money to buy the land back, it will stay in the hands of the one who bought it until the year of Jubilee. Then during that special celebration, the land will go back to the first owner's family. So the property will again belong to the right family. ²⁹ "Anyone who sells a home in a walled city still has the right to get it back until a full year after it was sold. Their right to get the house back will continue one year. ³⁰ But if the owner does not buy back the house before a full year is finished, the house that is in the walled city will belong to the one who bought it and to their descendants. The house will not go back to the first owner at the time of Jubilee. ³¹ Towns without walls around them will be treated like open fields. So houses built in these small towns will go back to the first owners at the time of Jubilee. ³² "But about the cities of the Levites: The Levites can buy back at any time their houses in the cities that belong to them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

usury: Exodus 22:25, Deuteronomy 23:19, Deuteronomy 23:20, Nehemiah 5:7-10, Psalms 15:5, Proverbs 28:8, Ezekiel 18:8, Ezekiel 18:13, Ezekiel 18:17, Ezekiel 22:12

fear: Leviticus 25:17, Nehemiah 5:9, Nehemiah 5:15

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Take thou no usury of him, or increase,.... Not only give him somewhat for his present relief, but lend him money to put him in a way of business, to get his living for the future, without requiring any interest for it; :-;

but fear thy God; who has given this command, and expects to be obeyed; and who is good, and does good, and should be feared for his goodness' sake; and is omniscient, and knows what is secretly exacted, and will not suffer any exorbitance of this kind to pass unpunished:

that thy brother may live with thee; which it would be still more difficult for him to do, should usury and increase be taken of him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 36. Take thou no usury of him — Usury, at present, signifies unlawful interest for money. Properly, it means the reward or compensation given for the use of a thing, but is principally spoken of money. For the definition of the original term, Exodus 22:25; Exodus 22:25.