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[–] 2 points 1 week ago

You, eh, know that the prohibition of taking usury from loans only applies to loans given to fellow Israelites (“brothers”), right?

Like the slavery restrictions prohibiting keeping slaves that are fellow Israelites, this doesn’t ban usury entirely- it bans exploiting fellow Israelites. (Because they’re for god to exploit the shit out of….)

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