 | Edward Joseph White - Bible and law - 2000 - 468 pages
...higher sense of justice than other contemporary peoples. See. 68. Law Against Exaction of Usury. 25 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. (Bxod. 22 : 25.) The practice of taking or exacting... | |
 | Andrea Lynne Finkelstein - Business & Economics - 2009 - 392 pages
...went all the way back to the Bible. Exodus 22:25 forbade making a profit on money lent to the poor: "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." '72 This kind of usury (or consumer lending) was... | |
 | Andrew Taylor - Fiction - 2003 - 308 pages
...child. If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry; and my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with...wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. I opened a drawer and took out a pad of paper, thinking that I should write a few notes for Vanessa.... | |
 | Jacob Neusner - Religion - 2001 - 304 pages
...speaking before the executioner took the sword and cut off his head. P. Concerning them Scripture says, My wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the...wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. (Ex. 22:23). (ARNAXXXVIII:V.2) The story establishes the tension at the outset: why do we die as do... | |
 | Graham Hand - Business & Economics - 2001 - 328 pages
...Bible he had used for 40 years and, suddenly, a new message leapt from the page. It was Exodus 22:25: 'If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him ac> a money lender, neither shalt thou lay upon him interest.' He looked to the heavens, feeling older... | |
 | James Shane - Religion - 2002 - 710 pages
...any widow, or fatherless child. 23 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry; 24 And my wrath shall...wives, shall be widows, and your children fatherless. Ex. 22:21-24 18 Cursed be he that makefh the blind to wander out of the way: and all the people shall... | |
 | Louis A. DeCaro - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 349 pages
...passed through Iowa and Illinois, reaching Ohio by Christmas 1856. 18 Pottawatomie and the Fatherless And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with...wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. —Exodus 22:24 The first of Owen Brown's children in Kansas was his daughter, Florilla, who went west... | |
 | Daniel S. Udrescu - Business & Economics - 2002 - 282 pages
...to 24%. Exodus 22:25 instructs us not to be part of such practices and to deal fairly with people; "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," Manipulation and False Arguments God provided instruction... | |
 | Rodger C. Gibbs - Religion - 2002 - 574 pages
...for need should not be deviously taken away by another. In Exodus 22:25-27 the Word of the Lord says: "If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shall thou lay upon him usury. If thou at all take thy neighbor's raiment to pledge,... | |
 | Lester V. Berrey - Religion - 2002 - 276 pages
...1:20 The body without the spirit is dead. — JAs. 2:26 Boldness, see COURAGE BORROWING and LENDING 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. — Ex. 22:25 Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy... | |
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If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry ; and my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword ; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. 
