19 (A)You are not to charge interest to your countrymen: interest on money, food, or anything that may be loaned on interest. 20 (B)You may charge interest to a foreigner, but to your countrymen you shall not charge interest, so that (C)the Lord your God may bless you in all [a]that you undertake in the land which you are about to enter to [b]possess.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 23:20 Lit the putting forth of your hand
  2. Deuteronomy 23:20 Lit possess it

So I thought it over and contended with the nobles and the leading people, and said to them, “(A)You are lending at interest, each to his brother!” Therefore, I held a great assembly against them.

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He (A)does not [a]lend his money [b]at interest,
Nor (B)does he take a bribe against the innocent.
(C)One who does these things will never be shaken.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 15:5 Lit give
  2. Psalm 15:5 I.e., to a fellow Israelite

and if he does not [a]lend money at (A)interest or take [b](B)interest, if he keeps his hand from injustice and (C)executes true justice between one person and another,

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 18:8 Lit give
  2. Ezekiel 18:8 Or usury, and so throughout the ch; i.e., on other kinds of loans

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