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Creditor: Laws Concerning Exodus 21:2–6

If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything. / If he arrived alone, he is to leave alone; if he arrived with a wife, she is to leave with him. / If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.

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Creditor: Laws Concerning Exodus 22:25–27

If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest. / If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset, / because his cloak is the only covering he has for his body. What else will he sleep in? And if he cries out to Me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.

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Creditor: Laws Concerning Leviticus 25:14–17, 35–37

If you make a sale to your neighbor or a purchase from him, you must not take advantage of each other. / You are to buy from your neighbor according to the number of years since the last Jubilee; he is to sell to you according to the number of harvest years remaining. / You shall increase the price in proportion to a greater number of years, or decrease it in proportion to a lesser number of years; for he is selling you a given number of harvests.

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Creditor: Laws Concerning Deuteronomy 15:2, 3

This is the manner of remission: Every creditor shall cancel what he has loaned to his neighbor. He is not to collect anything from his neighbor or brother, because the LORD’s time of release has been proclaimed. / You may collect something from a foreigner, but you must forgive whatever your brother owes you.

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Creditor: Laws Concerning Deuteronomy 23:19, 20

Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan. / You may charge a foreigner interest, but not your brother, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything to which you put your hand in the land that you are entering to possess.

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Creditor: Laws Concerning Deuteronomy 24:6, 10–13, 17

Do not take a pair of millstones or even an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that would be taking one’s livelihood as security. / When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security. / be sure to return it to him by sunset, so that he may sleep in his own cloak and bless you, and this will be credited to you as righteousness before the LORD your God.

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Creditor: Laws Concerning Matthew 5:42

Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.

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Creditor: Laws Concerning Luke 6:34

And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid in full.

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