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You shall not lend on interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of anything that is lent on interest:
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A Law for the Poor, Not Commerce
Commentators unanimously explain that this prohibition against charging interest was not a blanket ban on all loans. It specifically applied to lending to a fellow Israelite who was poor and in distress. The law's purpose was to prevent the oppression of the vulnerable and function as part of Israel's social safety net, not to regulate commercial enterprise.
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Deuteronomy
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19th Century
Anglican
Usury: See Exodus 22:25; Leviticus 25:35–36. Some recent writers on this law have thought that it forbids the putting o…
16th Century
Protestant
From these passages we learn that it is not enough to refrain from taking the goods of another, unless we also constantly exercise humanity and mer…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
You shall not lend upon usury to your brother One of the same nation and religion, and who is in poor and necessitou…
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Presbyterian
It is honorable to shelter and protect the weak, provided they are not wicked. Proselytes and converts to the truth should be treated with particul…
