Deuteronomy 15:3
Good News Translation
You may collect what a foreigner owes you, but you must not collect what any of your own people owe you.

New Revised Standard Version
Of a foreigner you may exact it, but you must remit your claim on whatever any member of your community owes you.

Contemporary English Version
This law applies only to loans you have made to other Israelites. Foreigners will still have to pay back what you have loaned them.

New American Bible
You may press a foreigner, but you shall remit the claim on what your kin owes to you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Of the foreigner or stranger thou mayst exact it: of thy countryman and neighbour thou shalt not have power to demand it again.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Of the foreigner or stranger thou mayst exact it: of thy countryman and neighbour thou shalt not have power to demand it again.

Deuteronomy 23:20 But to the stranger. To thy brother thou shalt lend that which he wanteth, without usury: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all thy works in the land, which thou shalt go in to possess.

Matthew 17:25,26 And he said: Of strangers. Jesus said to him: Then the children are free. . . .

John 8:35 Now the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the son abideth for ever.

1 Corinthians 6:6,7 But brother goeth to law with brother: and that before unbelievers. . . .

Galatians 6:10 Therefore, whilst we have time, let us work good to all men, but especially to those who are of the household of the faith.

Context
The Seventh Year
2Which shall be celebrated in this order. He to whom any thing is owing from his friend or neighbour or brother, cannot demand it again, because it is the year of remission of the Lord. 3Of the foreigner or stranger thou mayst exact it: of thy countryman and neighbour thou shalt not have power to demand it again.4And there shall be no poor nor beggar among you: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in the land which he will give thee in possession.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 15:2
Which shall be celebrated in this order. He to whom any thing is owing from his friend or neighbour or brother, cannot demand it again, because it is the year of remission of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 23:20
But to the stranger. To thy brother thou shalt lend that which he wanteth, without usury: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all thy works in the land, which thou shalt go in to possess.

Deuteronomy 15:2
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