Exodus 22:25-26
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. 26 bIf ever you take your neighbor’s cloak in pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down,Leviticus 25:35-37
Kindness for Poor Brothers
35“If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, cyou shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you. 36 dTake no interest from him or profit, but efear your God, that your brother may live beside you. 37 fYou shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.Nehemiah 5:5-7
5Now gour flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet hwe 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.”6I was very angry when I heard itheir outcry and these words. 7I took counsel with myself, and I brought charges against the nobles and the officials. I said to them, j“You are exacting interest, each from his brother.” And I held a great assembly against them
Proverbs 22:2
2 kThe rich and the poor meet together;the Lord is lthe Maker of them all.
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