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Exodus 22:25

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"If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor; neither shall you charge him interest.

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Egypt was the land where Israel had lived under oppression before the exodus, an experience that shaped God’s covenant laws. The prohibition against charging interest to a poor Israelite reflects the redeemed community’s calling to show mercy rather than reproduce the exploitation they knew in Egypt.

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Exodus 22:25 mentions Egypt.

Egypt · Ricardo Liberato

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