^22:25“If you lend money to any of⁵⁴ my people who are needy among you, do not be like a moneylender⁵⁵ to him; do not charge⁵⁶ him interest.⁵⁷^22:26If you do take⁵⁸ the garment of your neighbor in pledge, you must return it to him by the time the sun goes down,⁵⁹

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Footnotes

54 “any of” has been supplied.
55 The moneylender will be demanding and exacting. In Ps 109:11 and 2 Kgs 4:1 the word is rendered as “extortioner.”
56 Heb “set.”
57 In ancient times money was lent primarily for poverty and not for commercial ventures (H. Gamoran, “The Biblical Law against Loans on Interest,” 30 [1971]: 127–34). The lending to the poor was essentially a charity, and so not to be an opportunity to make money from another person’s misfortune. The word נֶשֶׁךְ (neshekh) may be derived from a verb that means “to bite,” and so the idea of usury or interest was that of putting out one’s money with a bite in it (See S. Stein, “The Laws on Interest in the Old Testament,” 4 [1953]: 161–70; and E. Neufeld, “The Prohibition against Loans at Interest in the Old Testament,” 26 [1955]: 355–412).
58 The construction again uses the infinitive absolute with the verb in the conditional clause to stress the condition.
59 The clause uses the preposition, the infinitive construct, and the noun that is the subjective genitive—“at the going in of the sun.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be like a moneylender to him, and you shall not exact interest from him. If ever you take your neighbor’s cloak in pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down,

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“If you lend money to one of my people among you who is needy, do not treat it like a business deal; charge no interest. If you take your neighbor’s cloak as a pledge, return it by sunset,

CSBChristian Standard Bible

“If you lend silver to my people, to the poor person among you, you must not be like a creditor to him; you must not charge him interest.

“If you ever take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him before sunset.

NLTNew Living Translation

“If you lend money to any of my people who are in need, do not charge interest as a money lender would. If you take your neighbor’s cloak as security for a loan, you must return it before sunset.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

“ ‘If you lend money to my people, to the needy with you, you will not be to him as a creditor; you will not charge him interest. If indeed you require the cloak of your neighbor as a pledge, you will return it to him at sundown,

KJV 1900King James 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. If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:

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