Holy Scripture

Deuteronomy 23:19

A church father on this verse
“[Scripture] orders money to be returned without usury. It is a mark of kindly feeling to help one who has nothing. It is a sign of a hard nature to extort more than one has given. If one has need of your assistance because he has not enough of his own wherewith to repay a debt, is it not a wicked thing to demand under…”
Ambrose of Milan, 4th c. — On the Duties of the Clergy 3.3.20

Source: Septuagint

Original

19Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot, nor the price of a dog into the house of the Lord thy God, for any vow; because even both are an abomination to the Lord thy God.

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In context

17He shall dwell with thee, he shall dwell among you where he shall please; thou shalt not afflict him.

18There shall not be a harlot of the daughters of Israel, and there shall not be a fornicator of the sons of Israel; there shall not be an idolatress of the daughters of Israel, and there shall not be an initiated person of the sons of Israel.

— Deuteronomy 23:19 —

20Thou shalt not lend to thy brother on usury of silver, or usury of meat, or usury of anything which thou mayest lend out.

21Thou mayest lend on usury to a stranger, but to thy brother thou shalt not lend on usury; that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all thy works upon the land, into which thou art entering to inherit it.

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