Leviticus 25:37

Wycliffe Bible

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

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.

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 Also the lond schal not be seeld `in to with outen ende, for it is myn, and ye ben my comelyngis and tenauntis; <sup>24</sup> wherfor al the cuntre of youre possessioun schal be seeld vndur the condicioun of ayenbiyng. <sup>25</sup> If thi brother is maad pore, and sillith his litil possessioun, and his nyy kynesman wole, he may ayenbie that that he seelde; <sup>26</sup> sotheli if he hath no nyy kynesman, and he may fynde prijs to ayenbie, <sup>27</sup> the fruytis schulen be rekynyd fro that tyme in which he seelde, and he schal yelde `that that is residue to the biere, and he schal resseyue so his possessioun. ²⁸ That if his hond fynde not, that he yelde the prijs, the biere schal haue that that he bouyte, `til to the yeer of iubilee; for in that yeer ech sillyng schal go ayen to the lord, and to the firste weldere. <sup>29</sup> He that sillith his hows, with ynne the wallis of a citee, schal haue licence to ayenbie til o yeer be fillid; <sup>30</sup> if he ayenbieth not, and the sercle of the yeer is passid, the biere schal welde it, and his eiris `in to with outen ende, and it schal not mow be ayenbouyt, ye, in the iubilee. ³¹ Forsothe if the hows is in a town `that hath not wallis, it schal be seeld bi the lawe of feeldis; sotheli if it is not ayenbouyt in the iubilee, it schal turne ayen to `his lord. ³² The howsis of dekenes, that ben in citees, moun euer be ayenbouyt; if tho ben not ayenbouyt,

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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.