Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.
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Gill's Exposition
Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury,.... Lend him money, expecting and insisting upon a large interest for it; this is to be understood of persons in poor and necessitous circumstances, of…
Barnes' Notes
Lend him thy victuals for increase - i. e. supply him with food for thy own profit.
Here is, I. A law concerning the real estates of the Israelites in the land of Canaan, and the transferring of them. 1. No land should be sold for ever from the family to whose lot it fell in the…
Cambridge Bible
No interest was to be permitted in such a case for money lent, nor, if the loan took the form of the necessaries of life, was more than the amount lent to be exacted in return. The same law appears in…