Leviticus 25:37

Easy-to-Read Version

Don't charge them interest on any money you lend them. And don't try to make a profit from the food you sell them.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
You shall not give him your money on interest, nor give him your victuals for increase.

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

Lexham English Bible
You must not give your money to him with interest or give your food for profit.

New Century Version
Don't lend him money for interest, and don't try to make a profit from the food he buys.

New English Translation
You must not lend him your money at interest and you must not sell him food for profit.

Amplified Bible
'You shall not give him your money at interest, nor your food at a profit.

New American Standard Bible
'You shall not give him your silver at interest, nor your food for profit.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou shalt not giue him thy money to vsurie, nor lende him thy vitailes for increase.

Legacy Standard Bible
You shall not give him your silver at interest nor your food for gain.

Complete Jewish Bible
Do not take interest when you loan him money or take a profit when you sell him food.

Darby Translation
Thy money shalt thou not give him upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.

English Standard Version
You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

George Lamsa Translation
You shall not lend him your money with a discount nor give him your food with usury.

Good News Translation
Do not make them pay interest on the money you lend them, and do not make a profit on the food you sell them.

Christian Standard Bible®
You are not to lend him your silver with interest or sell him your food for profit.

Literal Translation
You shall not give silver to him with interest, and you shall not give your food for increase.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For thou shalt not lende him yi money vpon vsury, ner delyuer him thy meate vpon vauntage.

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

Bible in Basic English
Do not take interest on the money which you let him have or on the food which you give him.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou shalt not geue hym thy money vpon vsurie, nor lende him thy victuels for encrease.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou shalt not give him thy money upon interest, nor give him thy victuals for increase.

King James Version (1611)
Thou shalt not giue him thy money vpon vsurie, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thou shalt not lend thy money to him at interest, and thou shalt not lend thy meat to him to be returned with increase.

English Revised Version
Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor give him thy victuals for increase.

Berean Standard Bible
You must not lend him your silver with interest or sell him your food for profit.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou schalt not yyue to hym thi money to vsure, and thou schalt not axe ouer `aboundaunce, ether encrees ouer of fruytis;

Young's Literal Translation
thy money thou givest not to him in usury, and for increase thou givest not thy food;

Update Bible Version
You shall not give him your money on interest, nor give him your victuals for increase.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou shalt not give him thy money upon interest, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.

World English Bible
You shall not give him your money on interest, nor give him your victuals for increase.

New King James Version
You shall not lend him your money for usury, nor lend him your food at a profit.

New Living Translation
Remember, do not charge interest on money you lend him or make a profit on food you sell him.

New Life Bible
Do not make him pay for the use of your money or your food.

New Revised Standard
You shall not lend them your money at interest taken in advance, or provide them food at a profit.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thy silver, shalt thou not give him on interest, - neither, for profit, shalt thou give him thy food.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury: nor exact of him any increase of fruits.

Revised Standard Version
You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'You shall not give him your silver at interest, nor your food for gain.

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
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Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury,.... Lend him money, expecting and insisting upon a large interest for it; this is to be understood of persons in poor and necessitous circumstances, of which the text only speaks; otherwise, if persons borrow money to gain by it, to carry on a greater trade, or to make purchase with it, it is but reasonable that the lender should have a share of profit arising from thence:

nor lend him thy victuals for increase; by which it should seem that those two words, used in Leviticus 25:36, though in the main they signify the same thing, yet may be distinguished, the one as concerning money, the other food; and which latter is not to be given by way of loan to a person in want of it, but freely; as for instance, if a man gives a poor man a bushel of wheat, on condition he gives him two for it hereafter, this is lending or giving his victuals for increase.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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