Exodus 22:25

KJV1611 – Modern English

If you lend money to any of my people who are poor among you, you shall not be like a moneylender to him; you shall not charge him interest.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אִם־חָבֹ֥ל תַּחְבֹּ֖ל שַׂלְמַ֣ת רֵעֶ֑ךָ עַד־בֹּ֥א הַשֶּׁ֖מֶשׁ תְּשִׁיבֶ֥נּוּ לֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

If ḥābōl taḥbōl śalmat rēʿekā, until bōʾ the šemeš tĕšîbennû to him.

Grammar Details

• *ḥābōl taḥbōl*: qal infinitive absolute + qal imperfect, 2nd masculine singular, 'you surely take as pledge'
• *śalmat*: feminine singular construct, 'garment of'
• *rēʿekā*: masculine singular noun with 2nd masculine singular suffix, 'your neighbor'
• *bōʾ*: qal infinitive construct, 'coming of'
• *šemeš*: definite feminine singular noun, 'sun'
• *tĕšîbennû*: hiphil imperfect, 2nd masculine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix, 'you shall return it'

Word Meanings

• *ḥābōl taḥbōl*: surely take as pledge/certainly take in pledge
• *śalmat*: garment/cloak/outer garment

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  If you take your neighbor's cloak as a pledge, return it to him before the sun sets.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  If thou lend{H3867} money{H3701} to any of my people{H5971} with thee that is poor,{H6041} thou shalt not be to him as a creditor;{H5383} neither shall ye lay{H7760} upon him interest.{H5392}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  If thou lend{H3867}{(H8686)} money{H3701} to any of my people{H5971} that is poor{H6041} by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer{H5383}{(H8802)}, neither shalt thou lay{H7760}{(H8799)} upon him usury{H5392}.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  Yf thou lende money to ani of my people that is poore by the, thou shalt not be as an vsurer vnto him, nether shalt oppresse him with vserye.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Yf thou lende money vnto my people that is poore by the, thou shalt not behaue thyself as an vsurer vnto him, nether shalt thou oppresse him with vsury.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  If thou lende money to my people, that is, to the poore with thee, thou shalt not bee as an vsurer vnto him: yee shall not oppresse him with vsurie.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  If thou lende money to any of my people that is poore by thee, thou shalt not be as a tiraunt vnto him, neither shalt thou lay vpon him vsurie.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  ¶ If thou lend money to [any of] my people [that is] poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  "If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you charge him interest.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  `If thou dost lend My poor people with thee money, thou art not to him as a usurer; thou dost not lay on him usury;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  If thou lend money to any of my people with thee that is poor, thou shalt not be to him as a creditor; neither shall ye lay upon him interest.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  If thou lend money to any of my people with thee that is poor, thou shalt not be to him as a creditor; neither shall ye lay upon him interest.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  If you let any of the poor among my people have the use of your money, do not be a hard creditor to him, and do not take interest.

• World English Bible (2000)

  "If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you charge him interest.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  “If you lend money to any of my people who are needy among you, do not be like a moneylender to him; do not charge him interest.

Referenced Verses

• Lev 25:35-37 : 35 And if your brother becomes poor, and falls into decay with you; then you shall relieve him: yes, though he is a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with you. 36 Take no usury from him, or increase; but fear your God; that your brother may live with you. 37 You shall not give him your money upon usury, nor lend him your food for increase.
• Ps 15:5 : 5 He who does not put out his money at usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.
• Deut 23:19-20 : 19 You shall not lend with interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of food, interest of anything that is lent with interest: 20 To a stranger you may lend with interest; but to your brother you shall not lend with interest, that the LORD your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land which you are going to possess.
• Ezek 18:8 : 8 He that has not given out loans with interest, nor taken any increase, that has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true judgment between man and man,
• Prov 28:8 : 8 He who by usury and unjust gain increases his wealth gathers it for one who will pity the poor.
• Neh 5:7 : 7 Then I consulted with myself and rebuked the nobles and rulers, and said to them, You are charging interest, each one from his brother. And I called a great assembly against them.
• Ezek 18:17 : 17 Who has taken off his hand from the poor, who has not received interest nor increase, has executed My judgments, has walked in My statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.
• Ezek 22:12 : 12 In you they have taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken usury and increase, and you have greedily gained from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten Me, says the Lord GOD.
• Matt 25:27 : 27 Therefore, you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming, I would have received my own with interest.
• Luke 19:23 : 23 Why then did you not put my money in the bank, that at my coming I might have collected it with interest?
• Ezek 18:13 : 13 Has given out loans with interest, and has taken increase; shall he then live? He shall not live: he has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.
• Neh 5:10-11 : 10 I likewise, and my brethren and my servants, could demand money and grain from them. I pray you, let us stop this interest. 11 Restore to them, I pray you, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil, that you are charging them.
• Jer 15:10 : 10 Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on interest, nor men have lent to me on interest; yet every one of them curses me.
• 2 Kgs 4:1 : 1 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant feared the LORD: and the creditor has come to take my two sons to be slaves.
• 2 Kgs 4:7 : 7 Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt, and you and your children live on the rest.
• Neh 5:2-5 : 2 For there were those who said, We, our sons, and our daughters are many: therefore we need to take grain for them, that we may eat and live. 3 Others said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses to buy grain because of the famine. 4 There were also those who said, We have borrowed money for the king's tax, against our lands and vineyards. 5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and indeed, we bring into bondage our sons and daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are already in bondage; nor is it in our power to redeem them, for other men have our lands and vineyards.