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You shall not give him your money on interest, nor give him your victuals for increase.
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
Lend him your food for increase - that is, supply him with food for your own profit.
19th Century
Anglican
Thou shalt not give him. —This is simply an emphatic repetition of the declaration in the previous verse, and favours the…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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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