²³ Why then did you not put my money in a bank, so that when I came I would get it back with interest?

²⁵ 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.

²⁶ If ever you take your neighbour's clothing in exchange for the use of your money, let him have it back before the sun goes down:

²⁷ For it is the only thing he has for covering his skin; what is he to go to sleep in? and when his cry comes up to me, I will give ear, for my mercy is great.

¹⁹ Do not take interest from an Israelite on anything, money or food or any other goods, which you let him have:

²⁰ From men of other nations you may take interest, but not from an Israelite: so that the blessing of the Lord your God may be on everything to which you put your hand, in the land which you are about to take as your heritage.

⁴ Or is it nothing to you that God had pity on you, waiting and putting up with you for so long, not seeing that in his pity God's desire is to give you a change of heart?

⁵ But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;