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Debt An obligation to pay in the future for a present benefit. Most of the biblical treatment of debt is within the civil law of ancient Israel, and all biblical instruction concerning debt is in a context of charitable, benevolent lending to relieve distress. Commercial lending, in which a business borrows cash to finance its operations, was well known in the ancient world, but does not appear in Scripture.
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