If H518 you lend H3867 money H3701 to any of my people H5971 that is poor H6041 by you, you shall not be to him as an usurer, H5383 neither H3808 shall you lay H7760 on him usury. H5392
And if H3588 your brother H251 be waxen poor, H4134 and fallen H4131H3027 in decay H4131 with you; then you shall relieve H2388 him: yes, though he be a stranger, H1616 or a sojourner; H8453 that he may live H2416 with you.
And there was a great H1419 cry H6818 of the people H5971 and of their wives H802 against H413 their brothers H251 the Jews. H3064
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For there were that said, H559 We, our sons, H1121 and our daughters, H1323 are many: H7227 therefore we take H3947 up corn H1715 for them, that we may eat, H398 and live. H2421
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Some also there were that said, H559 We have mortgaged H6148 our lands, H7704 vineyards, H3754 and houses, H1004 that we might buy H3947 corn, H1715 because of the dearth. H7458
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There were also that said, H559 We have borrowed H3867 money H3701 for the king's H4428 tribute, H4060 and that on our lands H7704 and vineyards. H3754
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Yet now H6258 our flesh H1320 is as the flesh H1320 of our brothers, H251 our children H1121 as their children: H1121 and, see, H2009 we bring H3533 into bondage H3533 our sons H1121 and our daughters H1323 to be servants, H5650 and some of our daughters H1323 are brought H3533 to bondage H3533 already: neither H369 is it in our power H3027 to redeem them; for other H312 men H582 have our lands H7704 and vineyards. H3754
Has given H5414 forth on usury, H5392 and has taken H3947 increase: H8635 shall he then live? H2425 he shall not live: H2421 he has done H6213 all H3605 these H428 abominations; H8441 he shall surely die; H4191 his blood H1818 shall be on him.
That has taken H7725 off his hand H3027 from the poor, H6041 that has not received H3947 usury H5392 nor increase, H8635 has executed H6213 my judgments, H4941 has walked H1980 in my statutes; H2708 he shall not die H4191 for the iniquity H5771 of his father, H1 he shall surely live. H2421