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For the LORD your God will bless you, as he promised you. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow. You will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.
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Verse 6. Lend. The Jews give a wrong interpretation to this passage, to authorize usury with regard to strangers. But God can never sanction injustice. He promises such riches to his people, if they be faithful, that they shall be in a condition to lend to many, without wanting themselves. Calmet.—Over thee. Hence the Jews submitted to a foreign yoke with so much reluctance. But they should have remembered to keep God’s law. Bible.
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