Éxodo 22:25

La Biblia Reina-Valera

Si dieres á mi pueblo dinero emprestado, al pobre que está contigo, no te portarás con él como logrero, ni le impondrás usura.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
Si prestas dinero a mi pueblo, a los pobres entre vosotros, no serás usurero con él; no le cobrarás interés.

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Si prestares dinero a alg�n pobre de los de mi pueblo que est� contigo, no ser�s usurero para con �l; no le impondr�s usura.

Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Si dieres a mi pueblo dinero prestado, al pobre que est� contigo, no te portar�s con �l como logrero, ni le impondr�s usura.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Leviticus 25:35-37, Deuteronomy 23:19, Deuteronomy 23:20, 2 Kings 4:1, 2 Kings 4:7, Nehemiah 5:2-5, Nehemiah 5:7, Nehemiah 5:10, Nehemiah 5:11, Psalms 15:5, Proverbs 28:8, Jeremiah 15:10, Ezekiel 18:8, Ezekiel 18:17, Matthew 25:27, Luke 19:23

Reciprocal: Leviticus 25:36 - usury Deuteronomy 15:3 - General Proverbs 29:13 - meet Ezekiel 22:12 - thou hast

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, c,] Such only need to borrow money, and to whom it should be freely lent, when it may be to the good of the borrower, and not any injury to the lender: this law, according to the Jewish writers, only respects Israelites, and not Gentiles agreeably to which is Jarchi's note,

"if thou lend, that is, not to a Gentile; and to which of my people? the poor, and to which of the poor? that is with thee:''

thou shalt not be to him as an usurer; that will not lend without usury, nor without an exorbitant interest, and deals very hardly with the borrower if he is not punctual in the payment of it; the Israelites were not only not to be usurers, but they were not to be like them; they were not to require anything for lending a poor man a little money; as not any settled interest, so neither were they to take any previous gift or reward later, see Luke 6:34

neither shalt thou lay upon him usury; or oblige him to give interest for money borrowed: it is in the plural, number, "neither shall ye lay"; and Aben Ezra observes, that the lender, scribe, and witness, all transgress this law; that is, when a man lends money on interest, and a bond is made by the scribe for it, and this signed by witnesses, all are guilty of the breach of it: yea, some Jewish writers h say, not only those, but whoever is a surety or bondsman for the payment, and even the borrower himself, Luke 6:34- :.

h Misn. Bava Metzia, c. 5. sect. 11. Maimon. & Bartenora in ib.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the notes at Leviticus 25:35-43; compare Deuteronomy 23:19.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 22:25. Neither shalt thou lay upon him usury. — נשך neshech, from nashach, to bite, cut, or pierce with the teeth; biting usury. So the Latins call it usura vorax, devouring usury. "The increase of usury is called נשך neshech, because it resembles the biting of a serpent; for as this is so small as scarcely to be perceptible at first, but the venom soon spreads and diffuses itself till it reaches the vitals, so the increase of usury, which at first is not perceived nor felt, at length grows so much as by degrees to devour another's substance." - Leigh.

It is evident that what is here said must be understood of accumulated usury, or what we call compound interest only; and accordingly נשך neshech is mentioned with and distinguished from תרביה tarbith and מרביה marbith, interest or simple interest, Leviticus 25:36-37; Proverbs 28:8; Ezekiel 18:8, Ezekiel 18:13, Ezekiel 18:17, and Exodus 22:12. - Parkhurst.

Perhaps usury may be more properly defined unlawful interest, receiving more for the loan of money than it is really worth, and more than the law allows. It is a wise regulation in the laws of England, that if a man be convicted of usury - taking unlawful interest, the bond or security is rendered void, and he forfeits treble the sum borrowed. Against such an oppressive practice the wisdom of God saw it essentially necessary to make a law to prevent a people, who were naturally what our Lord calls the Pharisees, φιλαργυροι, lovers of money, (Luke 16:14), from oppressing each other; and who, notwithstanding the law in the text, practise usury in all places of their dispersion to the present day.