{"query": "Easton: Usury", "count": 5, "results": [{"id": "card_n_28011d8f7042", "title": "Easton: Usury", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The sum paid for the use of money, hence interest; not, as in the modern sense, exorbitant interest. The Jews were forbidden to exact usury (Lev. 25:36, 37), only, however, in their dealings with each"}, {"id": "card_n_0dbb2495b4d4", "title": "Easton: Debt", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Mosaic law encouraged the practice of lending (Deut. 15:7; Ps. 37:26; Matt. 5:42); but it forbade the exaction of interest except from foreigners. Usury was strongly condemned (Prov. 28:8; Ezek. 1"}, {"id": "card_n_0c498c3c5dcd", "title": "Easton: Stranger", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word generally denotes a person from a foreign land residing in Palestine. Such persons enjoyed many privileges in common with the Jews, but still were separate from them. The relation of the Jew"}, {"id": "card_n_9810cd0e8219", "title": "Easton: Poor", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Mosaic legislation regarding the poor is specially important. (1.) They had the right of gleaning the fields (Lev. 19:9, 10; Deut. 24:19, 21). (2.) In the sabbatical year they were to have their s"}, {"id": "card_n_7cbf579cf6ec", "title": "Easton: Loan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Mosaic law required that when an Israelite needed to borrow, what he asked was to be freely lent to him, and no interest was to be charged, although interest might be taken of a foreigner (Ex. 22:"}]}