Deuteronomy 23:20-22

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²⁰You may charge interest to a foreigner, but to your fellow Israelite you shall not charge interest, so that the Lord your God may bless you in ^[a]all that you undertake in the land which you are about to enter to possess.

²¹“When you make a ^[b]vow to the Lord your God, you shall not delay to pay it, for He will most certainly require it of you, and a delay would cause you to sin. ²²But if you refrain from making a vow, that would not be [counted as] sin in you.

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Footnotes

Deuteronomy 23:20 Lit all to which your hand is put.
Deuteronomy 23:21 The abuse of vows was a practice for which Jesus sternly rebuked the Pharisees. There were at least two kinds of abuse for which they were rightly held responsible: 1) their approval of vows which should have been overruled and rejected because they violated even more important commandments (see Matt 15:3-6); and 2) inappropriate or hair-splitting criteria for determining the validity of a vow (Matt 23:16-22).