15 You mustn’t return any slaves to their master if they escaped and got to you. 16 Allow them to stay in your town and don’t mistreat them.

17 Don’t allow any Israeli man or woman to become a religious[fn] prostitute.[ref] 18 Don’t allow anyone woman or man to bring any part of their wages as a secular prostitute into your god Yahweh’s temple, because both female and male prostitution is abhorrent to him.

19 You mustn’t charge interest to your fellow Israeli, whether it’s money or food or anything else that’s borrowed.[ref] 20 You can charge foreigners interest, but not fellow Israelis so that your god Yahweh will bless your society in everything you do in the land that you’re about to occupy.