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Deuteronomy 23:19

Do not make your brothers pay you for the use of money, food, or anything you might give them to use.

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.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
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.
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 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 "If a servant runs away from his owner and comes to you, do not return him to his owner. 16 Let him stay with you, in the place he chooses in one of your towns, where it pleases him. Do not make it hard for him. 17 "No daughter of Israel is to sell the use of her body in worship to a strange god. And no son of Israel is to sell the use of his body for a strange god. 18 You must not bring the pay of a woman who sells the use of her body or of a man who does sex sins into the house of the Lord your God for any promised gift. For the Lord your God hates both of these. 19 Do not make your brothers pay you for the use of money, food, or anything you might give them to use. 20 You may make a stranger pay you for the use of money, but not your brother. So the Lord your God may bring good to you in all you do in the land you are going into to have for your own. 21 "When you make a promise to the Lord your God, do not be slow to pay it. It would be sin in you, for the Lord your God will be sure to ask you for it. 22 But if you do not make a promise, it would not be sin in you. 23 Be careful to do what you say you are going to do. Keep the promise you have made to the Lord your God because you want to. 24 "When you go into your neighbor's grape-field, you may eat grapes until you are full. But do not put any in your basket.

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
You will eat bread by the sweat of your face because of hard work, until you return to the ground, because you were taken from the ground. You are dust, and you will return to dust."
Genesis 23:9
Ask him to give me the grave of Machpelah which he has at the other side of his field. Let him give it to me for the full price in front of you, for a place to bury my wife."
Genesis 23:10
Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth. So Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham so what he said could be heard by the sons of Heth and all who came in through the gate of his city.
Genesis 47:30
But let me lie down with my fathers. Carry me out of Egypt and bury me where they are buried." And Joseph said, "I will do as you have said."
Genesis 50:13
They carried him to the land of Canaan. They buried him in the grave of the field of Machpelah, east of Mamre, which Abraham had bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite for a burying place.
Genesis 50:25
Then Joseph made the sons of Israel promise. He said, "God will take care of you. And you will carry my bones from here."
Job 30:23
For I know that You will bring me to death, to the place for all the living.
Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man becomes the father of a hundred children and lives many years until he is very old, but he is not happy with good things, and is not buried as he should be, then I say that the child who dies before it is born is shown more favor than he.
Ecclesiastes 12:5
Men will be afraid of a high place and of fears on the road. Flowers will grow on the almond tree. The grasshopper will pull himself along. And desire will be at an end. For man will go to his home that lasts forever, while people filled with sorrow go about in the street.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
Then the dust will return to the earth as it was. And the spirit will return to God Who gave 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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