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Two Kinds of Exploitation
Commentators explain this verse as an emphatic prohibition against two forms of exploitation. The first is charging interest ('usury') on money lent to the poor. The second is demanding 'increase' on food, such as requiring someone to pay back more grain than they borrowed. Both were seen as profiting from a neighbor's desperation.
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Leviticus
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Albert Barnes
On Leviticus 25:37
18th Century
Theologian
Lend him your food for increase - that is, supply him with food for your own profit.
Charles Ellicott
On Leviticus 25:37
19th Century
Bishop
Thou shalt not give him. —This is simply an emphatic repetition of the declaration in the previous verse, and favours the…
John Gill
On Leviticus 25:37
17th Century
Pastor
You shall not give him your money upon usury Lend him money, expecting and insisting upon a large interest for it; this i…
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Matthew Henry
On Leviticus 25:35–38
17th Century
Minister
Poverty and decay are great grievances, and very common; you have the poor always with you. You are to relieve him: by sympathy, pitying the poor; …