Thematic Bible: The credit system


Thematic Bible






“If a man borrows anything from his neighbor, and it is injured or dies while its owner is not with it, he shall make full restitution.

Then he said, “Go, borrow vessels at large for yourself from all your neighbors, even empty vessels; do not get a few.

But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water; and he cried out and said, “Alas, my master! For it was borrowed.”



but you shall freely open your hand to him, and shall generously lend him sufficient for his need in whatever he lacks.

All day long he is gracious and lends,
And his descendants are a blessing.




“No one shall take a handmill or an upper millstone in pledge, for he would be taking a life in pledge.

“They drive away the donkeys of the orphans;
They take the widow’s ox for a pledge.