When someone borrows an animal from another and it is injured or dies, the owner not being present, full restitution shall be made.

When the Lord your God has blessed you, as he promised you, you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow; you will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.

The Lord will open for you his rich storehouse, the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its season and to bless all your undertakings. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.

He said, ‘Go outside, borrow vessels from all your neighbours, empty vessels and not just a few.

But as one was felling a log, his axehead fell into the water; he cried out, ‘Alas, master! It was borrowed.’

And there were those who said, ‘We are having to borrow money on our fields and vineyards to pay the king’s tax.

The wicked borrow, and do not pay back, but the righteous are generous and keep giving;

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

With misspent toil, these workers form a futile god from the same clay— these mortals who were made of earth a short time before and after a little while go to the earth from which all mortals are taken, when the time comes to return the souls that were borrowed.

For a human being made them, and one whose spirit is borrowed formed them; for none can form gods that are like themselves.

Do not become a beggar by feasting with borrowed money when you have nothing in your purse.

On Lending and Borrowing

The merciful lend to their neighbours; by holding out a helping hand they keep the commandments.

If he can pay, his creditor will hardly get back half, and will regard that as a windfall. If he cannot pay, the borrower has robbed the other of his money, and he has needlessly made him an enemy; he will repay him with curses and reproaches, and instead of glory will repay him with dishonour.

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.

Jeremiah Complains Again and Is Reassured

Woe is me, my mother, that you ever 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.

Give to everyone who begs from you, and do not refuse anyone who wants to borrow from you.