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My favorite is - "If you lend money to one of my people among you who is needy, do not treat it like a business deal; charge no interest." - Exodus 22:25
Funny how you RARELY hear about that one.
That's one of the reasons a lot of Medieval kingdoms kept Jews around despite despising and occasionally massacring them- they could make loans. Of course, that's where the "Jewish banker" antisemitic trope came from.
Isn't that passage lifted directly from the torah, though? Why doesn't everybody abide by it? Islam isn't too keen on interest either, as I recall. It is a peculiar thing.
The key is 'to one of my people' here. You can charge interest, just not to your fellow countryman.
Edited to add: There is more far nuance to this than I'm familiar with, but I'm pretty sure that's the basic idea.