Exo 22:25, Lev 25:35-37, Neh 5:1-7, Psa 15:5, Eze 18:7-8, 13, 16-18 | ESV | STEP | 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.

25 ^a“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.

Leviticus 25:35-37

Kindness for Poor Brothers

35 “If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, ^byou shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you. 36 ^cTake no interest from him or profit, but ^dfear your God, that your brother may live beside you. 37 ^eYou shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

Nehemiah 5:1-7

Nehemiah Stops Oppression of the Poor

1 Now there arose ^fa great outcry of the people and of their wives ^gagainst their Jewish brothers. 2 For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive.” 3 There were also those who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine.” 4 And there were those who said, “We have borrowed money for ^hthe king’s tax on our fields and our vineyards. 5 Now ⁱour flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet ^jwe are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

6 I was very angry when I heard ^ktheir outcry and these words. 7 I took counsel with myself, and I brought charges against the nobles and the officials. I said to them, ^l“You are exacting interest, each from his brother.” And I held a great assembly against them

Psalms 15:5

5 who ^mdoes not put out his money at interest
and ⁿdoes not take a bribe against the innocent.
He who does these things shall never be ^omoved.

Ezekiel 18:7-8

7 ^pdoes not oppress anyone, but ^qrestores to the debtor his pledge, ^rcommits no robbery, ^sgives his bread to the hungry ^tand covers the naked with a garment, 8 ^udoes not lend at interest ^vor take any profit, ^{▼▼That is, profit that comes from charging interest to the poor; also verses 13, 17 (compare Leviticus 25:36)} withholds his hand from injustice, ^xexecutes true justice between man and man,

Ezekiel 18:13

13 ^ylends at interest, and takes profit; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; ^zhis blood shall be upon himself.

Ezekiel 18:16-18

16 does not oppress anyone, ^aaexacts no pledge, ^abcommits no robbery, ^acbut gives his bread to the hungry ^adand covers the naked with a garment, 17 withholds his hand from iniquity, ^{▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew from the poor} takes no interest or profit, obeys my rules, ^afand walks in my statutes; he shall not die for his father’s iniquity; ^aghe shall surely live. 18 As for his father, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother, and did what is not good among his people, ^ahbehold, he shall die for his iniquity.