Usury in the Bible is what we now call interest, any charge at all on a loan, whether the rate is cruel or small. The law of Moses forbade an Israelite to take it from a fellow Israelite, above all from one who had fallen poor, and let him take it from a foreigner (Exodus 22:25; Leviticus 25:35–37; Deuteronomy 23:19–20). The King James Bible never once says “interest”, so “usury” has to do all the work there. Since those translators…

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