Holy Scripture

Deuteronomy 23:21

A church father on this verse
“A wish is a request for blessings from God with a promise to fulfill a duty. And so, when you obtain what you have asked for, it is ungrateful to delay the promise.”
Ambrose of Milan, 4th c. — On Cain and Abel

Source: Septuagint

Original

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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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.

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

— Deuteronomy 23:21 —

22And if thou wilt vow a vow to the Lord thy God, thou shalt not delay to pay it; for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee, and otherwise it shall be sin in thee.

23But if thou shouldest be unwilling to vow, it is not sin in thee.

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