Again she conceived, and when she gave birth to a son she said, ‘Now at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.’ So he was named Levi.

Again she conceived and bore a son, and said, “Now this time my husband will be attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore his name was called Levi.

‘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.

“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.

Bring your fellow Levites from your ancestral tribe to join you and assist you when you and your sons minister before the tent of the covenant law.

And with you bring your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may join you and minister to you while you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony.

They are to join you and be responsible for the care of the tent of meeting – all the work at the tent – and no one else may come near where you are.

They shall join you and keep guard over the tent of meeting for all the service of the tent, and no outsider shall come near you.

This is how it is to be done: every creditor shall cancel any loan they have made to a fellow Israelite. They shall not require payment from anyone among their own people, because the  Lord’s time for cancelling debts has been proclaimed.

And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release what he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not exact it of his neighbor, his brother, because the  Lord’s release has been proclaimed.

For the  Lord your God will bless you as he has promised, and you will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. You will rule over many nations but none will rule over you.

For the  Lord your God will bless you, as he promised you, and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow, and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.

Rather, be open-handed and freely lend them whatever they need.

but you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be.

When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbour, do not go into their house to get what is offered to you as a pledge.

“When you make your neighbor a loan of any sort, you shall not go into his house to collect his pledge.

Stay outside and let the neighbour to whom you are making the loan bring the pledge out to you.

You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you make the loan shall bring the pledge out to you.

The  Lord will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none.

The  Lord will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.

They will lend to you, but you will not lend to them. They will be the head, but you will be the tail.

He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. He shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.

The wife of a man from the company of the prophets cried out to Elisha, ‘Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that he revered the  Lord. But now his creditor is coming to take my two boys as his slaves.’

Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the  Lord, but the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”

Still others were saying, ‘We have had to borrow money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards.

And there were those who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tax on our fields and our vineyards.

I pondered them in my mind and then accused the nobles and officials. I told them, ‘You are charging your own people interest!’ So I called together a large meeting to deal with them

I took counsel with myself, and I brought charges against the nobles and the officials. I said to them, “You are exacting interest, each from his brother.” And I held a great assembly against them

I and my brothers and my men are also lending the people money and grain. But let us stop charging interest!

Moreover, I and my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Let us abandon this exacting of interest.

Give back to them immediately their fields, vineyards, olive groves and houses, and also the interest you are charging them – one per cent of the money, grain, new wine and olive oil.’

Return to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive orchards, and their houses, and the percentage of money, grain, wine, and oil that you have been exacting from them.”

the Jews took it on themselves to establish the custom that they and their descendants and all who join them should without fail observe these two days every year, in the way prescribed and at the time appointed.

the Jews firmly obligated themselves and their offspring and all who joined them, that without fail they would keep these two days according to what was written and at the time appointed every year,

The wicked borrow and do not repay,
but the righteous give generously;

The wicked borrows but does not pay back,
but the righteous is generous and gives;

They are always generous and lend freely;
their children will be a blessing.

He is ever lending generously,
and his children become a blessing.

Even Assyria has joined them
to reinforce Lot’s descendants.

Asshur also has joined them;
they are the strong arm of the children of Lot.  Selah

May a creditor seize all he has;
may strangers plunder the fruits of his labour.

May the creditor seize all that he has;
may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil!

Good will come to those who are generous and lend freely,
who conduct their affairs with justice.

It is well with the man who deals generously and lends;
who conducts his affairs with justice.

Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the  Lord,
and he will reward them for what they have done.

Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the  Lord,
and he will repay him for his deed.

The rich rule over the poor,
and the borrower is slave to the lender.

The rich rules over the poor,
and the borrower is the slave of the lender.

So I commend the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a person under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad. Then joy will accompany them in their toil all the days of the life God has given them under the sun.

And I commend joy, for man has nothing better under the sun but to eat and drink and be joyful, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of his life that God has given him under the sun.

The  Lord will have compassion on Jacob;
once again he will choose Israel
and will settle them in their own land.
Foreigners will join them
and unite with the descendants of Jacob.

For the  Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel, and will set them in their own land, and sojourners will join them and will attach themselves to the house of Jacob.

it will be the same
for priest as for people,
for the master as for his servant,
for the mistress as for her servant,
for seller as for buyer,
for borrower as for lender,
for debtor as for creditor.

And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest;
as with the slave, so with his master;
as with the maid, so with her mistress;
as with the buyer, so with the seller;
as with the lender, so with the borrower;
as with the creditor, so with the debtor.

This is what the  Lord says:

‘Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce
with which I sent her away?
Or to which of my creditors
did I sell you?
Because of your sins you were sold;
because of your transgressions your mother was sent away.

Thus says the  Lord:
“Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce,
with which I sent her away?
Or which of my creditors is it
to whom I have sold you?
Behold, for your iniquities you were sold,
and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

Let no foreigner who is bound to the  Lord say,
‘The  Lord will surely exclude me from his people.’
And let no eunuch complain,
‘I am only a dry tree.’

Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to the  Lord say,
“The  Lord will surely separate me from his people”;
and let not the eunuch say,
“Behold, I am a dry tree.”

And foreigners who bind themselves to the  Lord
to minister to him,
to love the name of the  Lord,
and to be his servants,
all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it
and who hold fast to my covenant –

“And the foreigners who join themselves to the  Lord,
to minister to him, to love the name of the  Lord,
and to be his servants,
everyone who keeps the Sabbath and does not profane it,
and holds fast my covenant—

Alas, my mother, that you gave me birth,
a man with whom the whole land strives and contends!
I have neither lent nor borrowed,
yet everyone curses me.

Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.

They will ask the way to Zion
and turn their faces towards it.
They will come and bind themselves to the  Lord
in an everlasting covenant
that will not be forgotten.

They shall ask the way to Zion, with faces turned toward it saying, ‘Come, let us join ourselves to the  Lord in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.’

When they fall, they will receive a little help, and many who are not sincere will join them.

When they stumble, they shall receive a little help. And many shall join themselves to them with flattery,

They charge like warriors;
they scale walls like soldiers.
They all march in line,
not swerving from their course.

Like warriors they charge;
like soldiers they scale the wall.
They march each on his way;
they do not swerve from their paths.

‘Many nations will be joined with the  Lord in that day and will become my people. I will live among you and you will know that the  Lord Almighty has sent me to you.

And many nations shall join themselves to the  Lord in that day, and shall be my people. And I will dwell in your midst, and you shall know that the  Lord of hosts has sent me to you.

Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.

Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.

And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid in full.

But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

Then Jesus said to them, ‘Suppose you have a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say, “Friend, lend me three loaves of bread;

And he said to them, “Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves,