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Myles Coverdale Bible

Deuteronomy 23:19

Thou shalt occupye no vsury vnto yi brother, nether with money, ner with fode, ner with eny maner thinge that vsury maye be vsed withall.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Creditor;   Interest;   Lending;   Money;   Usury;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Usury or Interest;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Loans;   Usury;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Money;   Wages;   Wealth;   Work;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Custom;   Loan;   Usury;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Banking;   Commerce;   Dog;   Interest;   Loan;   Usury;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Crimes and Punishments;   Debt;   Deuteronomy;   Leviticus;   Poverty;   Slave, Slavery;   Usury, Interest, Increase;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Brotherhood (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Usury;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bank;   Borrowing;   Debt;   Interest;   Lend;   Neighbor;   Trade;   Usury;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Abomination;   Altar;   Blemish;   Brother;   Charity and Charitable Institutions;   Chastity;   Commandments, the 613;   Didascalia;   Dog;   Gifts;   Holiness;   Judaism;   Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Do not charge your brother interest on silver, food, or anything that can earn interest.
Hebrew Names Version
You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of anything that is lent on interest:
King James Version
Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:
Lexham English Bible
"You shall not charge your brother interest on money, interest on food, or interest on anything that one could lend on interest.
English Standard Version
"You shall not charge interest on loans to your brother, interest on money, interest on food, interest on anything that is lent for interest.
New Century Version
If you loan your fellow Israelites money or food or anything else, don't make them pay back more than you loaned them.
New English Translation
You must not charge interest on a loan to your fellow Israelite, whether on money, food, or anything else that has been loaned with interest.
Amplified Bible
"You shall not charge interest to your fellow Israelite—interest on money, food or anything that may be loaned for interest.
New American Standard Bible
"You are not to charge interest to your countrymen: interest on money, food, or anything that may be loaned on interest.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou shalt not giue to vsurie to thy brother: as vsurie of money, vsurie of meate, vsurie of any thing that is put to vsurie.
Legacy Standard Bible
"You shall not charge interest to your brother: interest on money, food, or anything that may be loaned at interest.
Contemporary English Version
Moses said: When you lend money, food, or anything else to another Israelite, you are not allowed to charge interest.
Complete Jewish Bible
Nothing earned through heterosexual or homosexual prostitution is to be brought into the house of Adonai your God in fulfillment of any vow, for both of these are abhorrent to Adonai your God.
Darby Translation
Thou shalt take no interest of thy brother, interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of anything that can be lent upon interest:
Easy-to-Read Version
"When you loan something to another Israelite, you must not charge interest. Don't charge interest on money, on food or on anything that may earn interest.
George Lamsa Translation
You shall not lend with interest to your brother: interest of money, interest of grain, and the interest of anything that is lent with interest;
Good News Translation
"When you lend money or food or anything else to Israelites, do not charge them interest.
Literal Translation
You shall not lend at interest to your brother; interest of silver, interest of food, interest of anything loaned at interest.
American Standard Version
Thou shalt not lend upon interest to thy brother; interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of anything that is lent upon interest.
Bible in Basic English
Do not take interest from an Israelite on anything, money or food or any other goods, which you let him have:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou shalt not hurt thy brother by vsurie of money, nor by vsurie of corne, nor by vsurie of any thyng that he may be hurt withall.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow; for even both these are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
King James Version (1611)
Thou shalt not lend vpon vsury to thy brother; vsury of money, vsury of victuals, vsury of any thing that is lent vpon vsury.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thou shalt not lend to thy brother on usury of silver, or usury of meat, or usury of any thing which thou mayest lend out.
English Revised Version
Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:
Berean Standard Bible
Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou schalt not leene to thi brothir to vsure money, neither fruytis,
Young's Literal Translation
`Thou dost not lend in usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of food, usury of anything which is lent on usury.
Update Bible Version
You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of anything that is lent on interest:
Webster's Bible Translation
Thou shalt not lend upon interest to thy brother; interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of any thing that is lent upon interest:
World English Bible
You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of anything that is lent on interest:
New King James Version
"You shall not charge interest to your brother--interest on money or food or anything that is lent out at interest.
New Living Translation
"Do not charge interest on the loans you make to a fellow Israelite, whether you loan money, or food, or anything else.
New Life Bible
Do not make your brothers pay you for the use of money, food, or anything you might give them to use.
New Revised Standard
You shall not charge interest on loans to another Israelite, interest on money, interest on provisions, interest on anything that is lent.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thou shalt not lend on interest to thy brother, interest of silver, interest of food, - interest of any thing that can be lent on interest:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt not lend to thy brother money to usury, nor corn, nor any other thing:
Revised Standard Version
"You shall not lend upon interest to your brother, interest on money, interest on victuals, interest on anything that is lent for interest.
THE MESSAGE
Don't charge interest to your kinsmen on any loan: not for money or food or clothing or anything else that could earn interest. You may charge foreigners interest, but you may not charge your brothers interest; that way God , your God, will bless all the work that you take up and the land that you are entering to possess.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You shall not charge interest to your countrymen: interest on money, food, or anything that may be loaned at interest.

Contextual Overview

15 Thou shalt not delyuer vnto his master the seruaunt, which is escaped fro him vnto the. 16 He shall dwell with the in the place that he choseth within eny of thy gates, for his wealth, and thou shalt not vexe him. 17 There shal be no whore amonge ye doughters of Israel, nether whorekeper amonge the sonnes of Israel. 18 Thou shalt not bringe ye hyre of an whoore ner the price of a dogg in to the house of the LORDE yi God for eny maner of vowe: for they both are abhominacion vnto the LORDE thy God. 19 Thou shalt occupye no vsury vnto yi brother, nether with money, ner with fode, ner with eny maner thinge that vsury maye be vsed withall. 20 (Vnto a strauger thou maiest lende vpo vsury, but not vnto thy brother) yt the LORDE thy God maye blesse the in all yt thou takest in hade, in the lode whither thou commest in to possesse it. 21 Whan thou makest a vowe vnto ye LORDE yi God, to shalt not be slacke to perfourme it: for the LORDE thy God shal requyre it of the, and it shal be synne vnto the. 22 Yf thou leaue vowinge, then is it no synne vnto the. 23 But that which is proceaded out of yi lyppes shalt thou kepe, and do therafter, acordinge as thou hast vowed vnto the LORDE of a frewyll, which thou hast spoken wt thy mouth. 24 Whan thou goest in to thy neghtours vyniarde, thou mayest eate of the grapes acordinge to thy desyre, tyll thou haue ynough. But thou shalt put none in to thy vessell.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 22:25, Leviticus 25:35-37, Nehemiah 5:1-7, Psalms 15:5, Ezekiel 18:7, Ezekiel 18:8, Ezekiel 18:13, Ezekiel 18:16-18, Ezekiel 22:12, Luke 6:34, Luke 6:35

Reciprocal: Exodus 22:14 - borrow Leviticus 25:36 - usury Nehemiah 5:7 - Ye exact usury Jeremiah 15:10 - I have Matthew 25:27 - with Luke 19:23 - usury

Cross-References

Genesis 3:19
In the sweate of thy face shalt thou eate thy bred, tyll thou be turned agayne vnto earth, whece thou art take: for earth thou art, and vnto earth shalt thou be turned agayne.
Genesis 23:9
that he maye geue me the dubble caue, which he hath in ye ende of his felde. For a reasonable money let him geue it me, for a possession to burye in amoge you.
Genesis 23:10
For Ephron dwelt amonge the Hethites.Then answered Ephron the Hethite vnto Abraham, that the Hethites might heare, before all that wente out and in at the gates of his cite, and sayde:
Genesis 47:30
but I will lye by my fathers, and thou shalt carye me out of Egipte, & burye me in their buryall. He sayde: I wil do as thou hast sayde.
Genesis 50:13
and caried him to ye lande of Canaan, and buried him in ye dubble caue, that Abraham bought with the felde for a possession to bury in, of Ephron ye Hethite ouer ageynst Mamre.
Genesis 50:25
Therfore toke he an ooth of the childre of Israel, and sayde: Whan God shal vyset you, the cary my bones fro hence.
Job 30:23
Sure I am, yt thou wilt delyuer me vnto death: where as a lodgyng is prepared for all me
Ecclesiastes 6:3
Yf a man begett an hundreth children, and lyue many yeares, so that his dayes are many in nombre, and yet can not enioye his good, nether be buried: as for him I saye, that an vntymely byrth is better then he.
Ecclesiastes 12:5
whan men shal feare in hye places, and be afrayed in the stretes: whan the Almonde tre shalbe despysed, the greshopper borne out, and whan greate pouerte shall breake in: when man goeth to his longe home, and the mourners go aboute the stretes.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
Or dust be turned againe vnto earth from whence it came, and or the sprete returne vnto God, which gaue it.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother,.... One of the same nation and religion, and who is in poor and necessitous circumstances, and wants either food for himself and family, or money to carry on his husbandry, till such times as the fruits of his ground will bring him in a sufficiency for his support, and the payment of what he borrows, and which is to be lent him without any interest: as the Jews were chiefly employed in husbandry, and not merchandise, they had but little occasion to borrow, and when they did could not afford to pay interest, as persons concerned in merchandise, whose gains are great, are able to do; and it is but reasonable that such persons should; but that the Israelites, when poor and in distress, might not be bowed down under their burdens, this law is made for their relief:

usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of anything that is lent upon usury; this takes in all sorts of usury, whether what is lent be money or food, or anything else, no interest was to be taken for it;

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Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 23:19. UsuryLeviticus 25:36; Leviticus 25:36.


 
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