Exodus 22:25
Modern Translations
New International Version
"If you lend money to one of my people among you who is needy, do not treat it like a business deal; charge no interest.

New Living Translation
“If you lend money to any of my people who are in need, do not charge interest as a money lender would.

English Standard Version
“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be like a moneylender to him, and you shall not exact interest from him.

Berean Study Bible
If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.

New American Standard Bible
“If you lend money to My people, to the poor among you, you are not to act as a creditor to him; you shall not charge him interest.

NASB 1995
"If you lend money to My people, to the poor among you, you are not to act as a creditor to him; you shall not charge him interest.

NASB 1977
“If you lend money to My people, to the poor among you, you are not to act as a creditor to him; you shall not charge him interest.

Amplified Bible
“If you lend money to any one of My people with you who is poor, you shall not act as a creditor (professional moneylender) to him; you shall not charge him interest.

Christian Standard Bible
“If you lend silver to my people, to the poor person among you, you must not be like a creditor to him; you must not charge him interest.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If you lend money to My people, to the poor person among you, you must not be like a moneylender to him; you must not charge him interest."

Contemporary English Version
Don't charge interest when you lend money to any of my people who are in need.

Good News Translation
"If you lend money to any of my people who are poor, do not act like a moneylender and require him to pay interest.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"If you lend money to my people-to any poor person among you-never act like a moneylender. Charge no interest.

International Standard Version
"If you loan money to my people, to the poor among you, don't be like a creditor to them and don't impose interest on them.

NET Bible
"If you lend money to any of my people who are needy among you, do not be like a moneylender to him; do not charge him interest.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.

New King James Version
“If you lend money to any of My people who are poor among you, you shall not be like a moneylender to him; you shall not charge him interest.

King James 2000 Bible
If you lend money to any of my people who is poor among you, you shall not be to him as a lender, neither shall you charge him interest.

New Heart English Bible
"If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you charge him interest.

World English Bible
"If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you charge him interest.

American King James Version
If you lend money to any of my people that is poor by you, you shall not be to him as an usurer, neither shall you lay on him usury.

American Standard Version
If thou lend money to any of my people with thee that is poor, thou shalt not be to him as a creditor; neither shall ye lay upon him interest.

A Faithful Version
If you lend money to one of My people who is poor among you, you shall not be to him as a money-lender, neither shall you lay upon him interest.

Darby Bible Translation
if thou lend money to my people, the poor with thee,thou shalt not be to him as a usurer: ye shall charge him no interest.

English Revised Version
If thou lend money to any of my people with thee that is poor, thou shalt not be to him as a creditor; neither shall ye lay upon him usury.

Webster's Bible Translation
If thou shalt lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
If thou lende money to my people, that is, to the poore with thee, thou shalt not bee as an vsurer vnto him: yee shall not oppresse him with vsurie.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
(22:24) If thou lende money to any of my people that is poore by thee, thou shalt not be as a tiraunt vnto him, neither shalt thou lay vpon him vsurie.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Yf thou lende money vnto my people that is poore by the, thou shalt not behaue thyself as an vsurer vnto him, nether shalt thou oppresse him with vsury.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
Yf thou lende money to ani of my people that is poore by the, thou shalt not be as an vsurer vnto him, nether shalt oppresse him with vserye.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
If you lend money [to] My poor people [who are] with you, you are not as a usurer to him; you do not lay usury on him;

Young's Literal Translation
'If thou dost lend My poor people with thee money, thou art not to him as a usurer; thou dost not lay on him usury;

Smith's Literal Translation
If thou shalt lend silver to my people being poor with thee, thou shalt not be to him, as lending; ye shall not put interest upon him.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor, that dwelleth with thee, thou shalt not be hard upon them as an extortioner, nor oppress them with usuries.

Catholic Public Domain Version
If you lend money to the poor of my people who live among you, you shall not coerce them like a collector, nor oppress them with usury.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And if you lend money to my people, the poor of your people, you will not be as a creditor to him and do not take interest from him.

Lamsa Bible
If you lend money to any of my people who are the poor among you, you shall not be to him as an usurer, neither shall you take any usury from him.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
If thou lend money to any of My people, even to the poor with thee, thou shalt not be to him as a creditor; neither shall ye lay upon him interest.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And if thou shouldest lend money to thy poor brother who is by thee, thou shalt not be hard upon him thou shalt not exact usury of him.
















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