Ezekiel 18:8 Cross References - BBE

⁸ And has not given his money out at interest or taken great profits, and, turning his hand from evil-doing, has kept faith between man and man,

²⁵ If you let any of the poor among my people have the use of your money, do not be a hard creditor to him, and do not take interest.

¹⁵ Do no wrong in your judging: do not give thought to the position of the poor, or honour to the position of the great; but be a judge to your neighbour in righteousness.

³⁵ Do not make false decisions in questions of yard-sticks and weights and measures.

³⁵ And if your brother becomes poor and is not able to make a living, then you are to keep him with you, helping him as you would a man from another country who is living among you. ³⁶ Take no interest from him, in money or in goods, but have the fear of your God before you, and let your brother make a living among you. ³⁷ Do not take interest on the money which you let him have or on the food which you give him.

¹⁶ And at that time I gave orders to your judges, saying, Let all questions between your brothers come before you for hearing, and give decisions uprightly between a man and his brother or one from another nation who is with him. ¹⁷ In judging, do not let a man's position have any weight with you; give hearing equally to small and great; have no fear of any man, for it is God who is judge: and any cause in which you are not able to give a decision, you are to put before me and I will give it a hearing.

¹⁸ You are to make judges and overseers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, for every tribe: and they are to be upright men, judging the people in righteousness. ¹⁹ You are not to be moved in your judging by a man's position, you are not to take rewards; for rewards make the eyes of the wise man blind, and the decisions of the upright false. ²⁰ Let righteousness be your guide, so that you may have life, and take for your heritage the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

¹⁹ Do not take interest from an Israelite on anything, money or food or any other goods, which you let him have: ²⁰ From men of other nations you may take interest, but not from an Israelite: so that the blessing of the Lord your God may be on everything to which you put your hand, in the land which you are about to take as your heritage.

²⁴ And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.

¹ Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their countrymen the Jews. ² For there were some who said, We, our sons and our daughters, are a great number: let us get grain, so that we may have food for our needs. ³ And there were some who said, We are giving our fields and our vine-gardens and our houses for debt: let us get grain because we are in need. ⁴ And there were others who said, We have given up our fields and our vine-gardens to get money for the king's taxes. ⁵ But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens. ⁶ And on hearing their outcry and what they said I was very angry. ⁷ And after turning it over in my mind, I made a protest to the chiefs and the rulers, and said to them, Every one of you is taking interest from his countryman. And I got together a great meeting of protest. ⁸ And I said to them, We have given whatever we were able to give, to make our brothers the Jews free, who were servants and prisoners of the nations: and would you now give up your brothers for a price, and are they to become our property? Then they said nothing, answering not a word. ⁹ And I said, What you are doing is not good: is it not the more necessary for you to go in the fear of our God, because of the shame which the nations may put on us? ¹⁰ Even I and my servants have been taking interest for the money and the grain we have let them have. So now, let us give up this thing. ¹¹ Give back to them this very day their fields, their vine-gardens, their olive-gardens, and their houses, as well as a hundredth part of the money and the grain and the wine and the oil which you have taken from them.

¹⁵ But earlier rulers who were before me made the people responsible for their upkeep, and took from them bread and wine at the rate of forty shekels of silver; and even their servants were lords over the people: but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.

⁷ When I went out of my door to go up to the town, and took my seat in the public place, ⁸ The young men saw me, and went away, and the old men got up from their seats; ⁹ The rulers kept quiet, and put their hands on their mouths; ¹⁰ The chiefs kept back their words, and their tongues were joined to the roofs of their mouths. ¹¹ For when it came to their ears, men said that I was truly happy; and when their eyes saw, they gave witness to me; ¹² For I was a saviour to the poor when he was crying for help, to the child with no father, and to him who had no supporter. ¹³ The blessing of him who was near to destruction came on me, and I put a song of joy into the widow's heart. ¹⁴ I put on righteousness as my clothing, and was full of it; right decisions were to me a robe and a head-dress. ¹⁵ I was eyes to the blind, and feet to him who had no power of walking. ¹⁶ I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me. ¹⁷ By me the great teeth of the evil-doer were broken, and I made him give up what he had violently taken away.

⁵ He who does not put out his money at interest, or for payment give false decisions against men who have done no wrong. He who does these things will never be moved.

⁸ He who makes his wealth greater by taking interest, only gets it together for him who has pity on the poor.

⁸ Let your mouth be open for those who have no voice, in the cause of those who are ready for death. ⁹ Let your mouth be open, judging rightly, and give right decisions in the cause of the poor and those in need.

¹⁷ Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow.

¹⁵ He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to death, and whose eyes are shut against evil;

¹⁰ Sorrow is mine, my mother, because you have given birth to me, a cause of fighting and argument in all the earth! I have not made men my creditors and I am not in debt to any, but every one of them is cursing me.

¹⁵ Are you to be a king because you make more use of cedar than your father? did not your father take food and drink and do right, judging in righteousness, and then it was well for him? ¹⁶ He was judge in the cause of the poor and those in need; then it was well. Was not this to have knowledge of me? says the Lord.

¹³ And has given out his money at interest and taken great profits: he will certainly not go on living: he has done all these disgusting things: death will certainly be his fate; his blood will be on him.

¹⁷ Who has kept his hand from evil-doing and has not taken interest or great profits, who has done my orders and been guided by my rules: he will certainly not be put to death for the evil-doing of his father; life will certainly be his.

¹² In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord.

⁹ This is what the Lord of armies has said: Let your judging be upright and done in good faith, let every man have mercy and pity for his brother: ¹⁰ Do not be hard on the widow, or the child without a father, on the man from a strange country, or on the poor; let there be no evil thought in your heart against your brother.

¹⁶ These are the things which you are to do: Let every man say what is true to his neighbour; and let your judging give peace in your towns.