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VERSE: Dt23-20a

====================== LEND/LOAN on INTEREST ====================

VERY BRIEF SUMMARY
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The Torah coins the term BITE to refer to INTEREST on a loan.
It is Biblically prohibited to have interests on loans. The
Torah uses 2 verb forms--
-- NOUN FORM: Dont give BITES
-- ACTIVE (to bite) and
-- CAUSATIVE (to make someone else bite you).
Clearly
--TO BITE refers to the PERSON LENDING taking INTEREST
--To give BITES also refers to the PERSON LENDING taking interest
--To CAUSE/ALLOW A BITE refers to the LENDER paying the interest

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RASHI RULE USED:                GRAMMARr
RASHI SUBRULE USED:             7 Conjugation Modes
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BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF RULE AND SUBRULE
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One of Rashis 6 main goals is to explain Biblical grammar
the same way modern Grammar books explain Grammar.

STANDARD REFERENCES FOR THIS RULE
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http://www.Rashiyomi.com/rules-01.htm (Essay on 6 Rashi rules)
http://www.RashiYomi.com/grammar.htm (Rashiyomi Grammar page)

TODAYS LIST
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We review and contrast verses with the root Nun-SHin-Caph
We see 3 forms
- NOUN Form (Give a BITE)
- ACTIVE TENSE (To BITE a lender)
- CAUSATIVE TENSE (Make someone take a BITE (from you))
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VERSE   FORM      TEXT OF VERSE
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Ex22-24 NOUN      When you loan dont give BITES*1
Lv25-36 NOUN      When helping the poor dont take BITES*1
Ez18-37 NOUN      He did not take BITES or EXTRA (Interest)*1
Dt23-20 CAUSATIVE Dont CAUSE TO your brother BITINGS*2
Dt23-20 ACTIVE    ...anything that can be BITEN*3

NOTES
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*1 Clearly these verses refer to BITES of the LOANING PERSON
   on the LENDER

*2 So we translate this as DONT ALLOW YOUR BROTHER TO BITE
   YOU (That is, do NOT pay the interest to him as he then
   has committed a Bite).

   - Thus Dt23-20 prohibits interest on the lender
   - WHile Lv25-36 prohibits interest on the loaning party

*3 BITEN by the LOANING PARTY
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