Leviticus 25:37

New Living Translation

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

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.

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.

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 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 must never be sold on a permanent basis, for the land belongs to me. You are only foreigners and tenant farmers working for me. ²⁴ "With every purchase of land you must grant the seller the right to buy it back. ²⁵ If one of your fellow Israelites falls into poverty and is forced to sell some family land, then a close relative should buy it back for him. ²⁶ If there is no close relative to buy the land, but the person who sold it gets enough money to buy it back, ²⁷ he then has the right to redeem it from the one who bought it. The price of the land will be discounted according to the number of years until the next Year of Jubilee. In this way the original owner can then return to the land. ²⁸ But if the original owner cannot afford to buy back the land, it will remain with the new owner until the next Year of Jubilee. In the jubilee year, the land must be returned to the original owners so they can return to their family land. ²⁹ "Anyone who sells a house inside a walled town has the right to buy it back for a full year after its sale. During that year, the seller retains the right to buy it back. ³⁰ But if it is not bought back within a year, the sale of the house within the walled town cannot be reversed. It will become the permanent property of the buyer. It will not be returned to the original owner in the Year of Jubilee. ³¹ But a house in a village—a settlement without fortified walls—will be treated like property in the countryside. Such a house may be bought back at any time, and it must be returned to the original owner in the Year of Jubilee. ³² "The Levites always have the right to buy back a house they have sold within the towns allotted 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.