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Exodus 22.25:

If you lend money to my people, to the poor among you, you shall not deal with them as a creditor; you shall not exact interest from them.

Leviticus 25.36:

Do not take interest in advance or otherwise make a profit from them, but fear your God; let them live with you.

Leviticus 25.37:

You shall not lend them your money at interest taken in advance, or provide them food at a profit.

Deuteronomy 23.19:

You shall not charge interest on loans to another Israelite, interest on money, interest on provisions, interest on anything that is lent.

Deuteronomy 23.20:

On loans to a foreigner you may charge interest, but on loans to another Israelite you may not charge interest, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all your undertakings in the land that you are about to enter and possess.

Nehemiah 5.7:

After thinking it over, I brought charges against the nobles and the officials; I said to them, ‘You are all taking interest from your own people.’ And I called a great assembly to deal with them,

Nehemiah 5.10:

Moreover, I and my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Let us stop this taking of interest.

Nehemiah 5.11:

Restore to them, this very day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive orchards, and their houses, and the interest on money, grain, wine, and oil that you have been exacting from them.’

Psalm 15.5:

who do not lend money at interest,
   and do not take a bribe against the innocent.

Those who do these things shall never be moved.

Proverbs 28.8:

One who augments wealth by exorbitant interest
   gathers it for another who is kind to the poor.

Isaiah 58.3:

‘Why do we fast, but you do not see?
   Why humble ourselves, but you do not notice?’
Look, you serve your own interest on your fast-day,
   and oppress all your workers.

Isaiah 58.13:

If you refrain from trampling the sabbath,
   from pursuing your own interests on my holy day;
if you call the sabbath a delight
   and the holy day of the Lord honourable;
if you honour it, not going your own ways,
   serving your own interests, or pursuing your own affairs;^*

Ezekiel 18.8:

does not take advance or accrued interest, withholds his hand from iniquity, executes true justice between contending parties,

Ezekiel 18.13:

takes advance or accrued interest; shall he then live? He shall not. He has done all these abominable things; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon himself.

Ezekiel 18.17:

withholds his hand from iniquity,^* takes no advance or accrued interest, observes my ordinances, and follows my statutes; he shall not die for his father’s iniquity; he shall surely live.

Ezekiel 22.12:

In you, they take bribes to shed blood; you take both advance interest and accrued interest, and make gain of your neighbours by extortion; and you have forgotten me, says the Lord God.

Ecclesiasticus 37.7:

All counsellors praise the counsel they give,
   but some give counsel in their own interest.

Ecclesiasticus 37.8:

Be wary of a counsellor,
   and learn first what is his interest,
   for he will take thought for himself.
He may cast the lot against you

2 Maccabees 14.8:

first because I am genuinely concerned for the interests of the king, and second because I have regard also for my compatriots. For through the folly of those whom I have mentioned our whole nation is now in no small misfortune.