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The rich over the poor ruleth, And a servant <FI>is<Fi> the borrower to the lender.

Whoso is multiplying his wealth by biting and usury, For one favouring the poor doth gather it.

`Thou dost not lend in usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of food, usury of anything which is lent on usury. — read the full passage →

for a root of all the evils is the love of money, which certain longing for did go astray from the faith, and themselves did pierce through with many sorrows;

To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other--law he hath fulfilled,

it behoved thee then to put my money to the money-lenders, and having come I had received mine own with increase.

A man lacking heart is striking hands, A surety he becometh before his friend.

Let me sing, I pray you, for my beloved, A song of my beloved as to his vineyard: My beloved hath a vineyard in a fruitful hill, — read the full passage →

His silver he hath not given in usury, And a bribe against the innocent Hath not taken; Whoso is doing these is not moved to the age!

`Jehovah doth open to thee his good treasure--the heavens--to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand, and thou hast lent to many nations, and thou--thou dost not borrow.

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first of the second month, in the second year of their going out of the land of Egypt, saying: — read the full passage →

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, in mount Sinai, saying, — read the full passage →

and may He who is supplying seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,