⁷ After thinking it over, I contended with the nobles and the officials; I said to them, “You are all taking interest from your own people.” And I called a great assembly to deal with them^(A)

¹⁹ “You shall not charge interest on loans to another Israelite,^[a] interest on money, interest on provisions, interest on anything that is lent.^{(A) 20} On loans to a foreigner you may charge interest, but on loans to another Israelite^[b] you may not charge interest, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all your undertakings in the land that you are about to enter and possess.^(B)

³⁶ Do not take interest in advance or otherwise make a profit from them, but fear your God; let them live with you.^(A)

²⁵ “If you lend money to my people, to the poor among you, you shall not deal with them as a creditor; you shall not exact interest from them.^(A)

¹² In you, they take bribes to shed blood; you take both advance interest and accrued interest and make gain of your neighbors by extortion, and you have forgotten me, says the Lord God.^(A)