Study it in the app“To the foreigner you may charge interest, but to your brother you shall not charge interest, so that YHWH your Elohim may bless you in every undertaking of your hand in the land that you are going into to possess it.”
To the foreignerלַנָּכְרִיyou may charge interest,תַשִּׁיךְbut to your brotherוּלְאָחִיךָyou shall notלֹאcharge interest,תַשִּׁיךְso thatלְמַעַןYHWHיְהוָהyour Elohimאֱלֹהֶיךָmay bless youיְבָרֶכְךָin everyבְּכֹלundertakingמִשְׁלַחof your handיָדֶךָinעַלthe landהָאָרֶץthatאֲשֶׁרyouאַתָּהare going intoבָא שָׁמָּהto possessלְרִשְׁתָּit.הּ
foreign, stranger
Foreign, strange; a foreigner, someone outside the family.
Where else “nachri” appearscharge interest
To demand extra from someone who receives a loan, beyond what was lent.
Where else “tashich” appearsbrother
A son of the same father or the same mother.
Where else “achi” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appearsElohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “elohe” appearsbless
God gives good things: life, children, harvests.
Where else “yevarech” appearsundertaking
What one sets one's hand to.
Where else “mishlach” appearshand
The part of the body with which one takes, gives and works; also what one does.
Where else “yade” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “arets” appearsenter
To go into a place.
Where else “va” appearspossess
To occupy a land and make it one's own.
Where else “rishta” appears19You shall not charge interest to your brother, interest on silver, interest on food, interest on any thing that is lent at interest.
20 · This verse (above)
21When you make a vow to YHWH your Elohim, you shall not delay to pay it, for YHWH your Elohim will surely require it of you, and it will be sin in you.
