Leviticus 25:37
New International Version
You must not lend them money at interest or sell them food at a profit.

New Living Translation
Remember, do not charge interest on money you lend him or make a profit on food you sell him.

English Standard Version
You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

Berean Standard Bible
You must not lend him your silver at interest or sell him your food for profit.

King James Bible
Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.

New King James Version
You shall not lend him your money for usury, nor lend him your food at a profit.

New American Standard Bible
You shall not give him your silver at interest, nor your food for profit.

NASB 1995
‘You shall not give him your silver at interest, nor your food for gain.

NASB 1977
‘You shall not give him your silver at interest, nor your food for gain.

Legacy Standard Bible
You shall not give him your silver at interest nor your food for gain.

Amplified Bible
You shall not give him your money at interest, nor your food at a profit.

Christian Standard Bible
You are not to lend him your silver with interest or sell him your food for profit.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You are not to lend him your silver with interest or sell him your food for profit.

American Standard Version
Thou shalt not give him thy money upon interest, nor give him thy victuals for increase.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Do not give your silver to him at a discount and do not give your food with interest.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Thou shalt not lend thy money to him at interest, and thou shalt not lend thy meat to him to be returned with increase.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor exact of him any increase of fruits.

English Revised Version
Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor give him thy victuals for increase.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Never collect any kind of interest on your money or on the food you give them.

Good News Translation
Do not make them pay interest on the money you lend them, and do not make a profit on the food you sell them.

International Standard Version
You are not to loan him money with interest or sell him your food at a profit.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Thou shalt not give him thy money upon interest, nor give him thy victuals for increase.

Literal Standard Version
you do not give your money to him in usury, and you do not give your food for increase.

Majority Standard Bible
You must not lend him your silver at interest or sell him your food for profit.

New American Bible
Do not give your money at interest or your food at a profit.

NET Bible
You must not lend him your money at interest and you must not sell him food for profit.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall not lend them your money at interest taken in advance, or provide them food at a profit.

New Heart English Bible
You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou shalt not give him thy money upon interest, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.

World English Bible
You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

Young's Literal Translation
thy money thou givest not to him in usury, and for increase thou givest not thy food;

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Redemption of the Poor
36Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you. 37You must not lend him your silver at interest or sell him your food for profit. 38I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.…

Cross References
Leviticus 25:36
Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you.

Leviticus 25:38
I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.

Isaiah 24:2
people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.

Jeremiah 15:10
Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.


Treasury of Scripture

You shall not give him your money on usury, nor lend him your victuals for increase.

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Leviticus 25
1. the Sabbath of the seventh year
8. The jubilee in the fiftieth year
14. Of oppression
18. A blessing of obedience
23. The redemption of land
29. Of houses
35. Compassion to the poor
39. The usage of bondmen
47. The redemption of servants














(37) Thou shalt not give him.--This is simply an emphatic repetition of the declaration in the foregoing verse, and favours the ancient distinction between the two terms.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
You must not
לֹֽא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

lend
תִתֵּ֥ן (ṯit·tên)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

him
אֶ֨ת־ (’eṯ-)
Direct object marker
Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

your silver
כַּסְפְּךָ֔ (kas·pə·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 3701: Silver, money

with interest
בְּנֶ֑שֶׁךְ (bə·ne·šeḵ)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5392: Interest on a, debt

or
לֹא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

sell
תִתֵּ֥ן (ṯit·tên)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

him your food
אָכְלֶֽךָ׃ (’ā·ḵə·le·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 400: Food

for profit.
וּבְמַרְבִּ֖ית (ū·ḇə·mar·bîṯ)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 4768: Increase, great number, greatness


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