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@jmb@social.coopSharing from my friend Lance Schmitz (an #Episcopalian priest in #OKC) on FB, but since these texts all come from the #Tanakh I'm sharing with #Mazeldon:
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Imagine if folks got as wound up about these verses as they do about other ones…..
Ezekiel 18:13 He lends at interest and takes a profit. Will such a man live? He will not! Because he has done all these detestable things, he is to be put to death; his blood will be on his own head.
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Ezekiel 18:8 He does not lend to them at interest or take a profit from them. He withholds his hand from doing wrong and judges fairly between two parties.
Exodus 22:25 “If you loan money to my people, to the poor among you, don’t be like a creditor to them and don’t impose interest on them.”
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Deuteronomy 23:19 Do not charge a fellow Israelite interest, whether on money or food or anything else that may earn interest. You may charge a foreigner interest, but not a fellow Israelite, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything you put your hand to in the land you are entering to possess.
Leviticus 25:36 Do not take interest or any profit from them, but fear your God, so that they may continue to live among you.
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Leviticus 25:37 Remember, do not charge interest on money you lend him or make a profit on food you sell him.