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97881 New Heart English Bible — Nehemiah 3:5
5 Next to them, the Tekoites made repairs; but their nobles did not put their necks to the work of their lord.
97882 New Heart English Bible — Nehemiah 4:5
5 do not cover their iniquity, and do not let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders."
97883 New Heart English Bible — Nehemiah 5
Nehemiah 5
97884 New Heart English Bible — Nehemiah 5:1
1 Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.
97885 New Heart English Bible — Nehemiah 5:2
2 For there were that said, "We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live."
97886 New Heart English Bible — Nehemiah 5:3
3 Some also there were that said, "We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine."
97887 New Heart English Bible — Nehemiah 5:4
4 There were also some who said, "We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.
97888 New Heart English Bible — Nehemiah 5:5
5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Look, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some …
97889 New Heart English Bible — Nehemiah 5:6
6 I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.
97890 New Heart English Bible — Nehemiah 5:7
7 Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, "You exact usury, everyone of his brother." I held a great assembly against them.
97891 New Heart English Bible — Nehemiah 5:8
8 I said to them, "We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us?" Then they held their peace, and found never a word.
97892 New Heart English Bible — Nehemiah 5:9
9 Also I said, "The thing that you do is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God, to prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies?
97893 New Heart English Bible — Nehemiah 5:10
10 I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.
97894 New Heart English Bible — Nehemiah 5:11
11 Please restore to them, even this day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you are charging them."
97895 New Heart English Bible — Nehemiah 5:12
12 Then they said, "We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do, even as you say." Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.
97896 New Heart English Bible — Nehemiah 5:13
13 Also I shook out my lap, and said, "So may God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that doesn’t perform this promise; even thus be he shaken out …
97897 New Heart English Bible — Nehemiah 5:14
14 Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even to the two and thirtieth year of Artachshasta …
97898 New Heart English Bible — Nehemiah 5:15
15 But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people: but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.
97899 New Heart English Bible — Nehemiah 5:16
16 Yes, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants were gathered there to the work.
97900 New Heart English Bible — Nehemiah 5:17
17 Moreover there were at my table, of the Jews and the rulers, one hundred fifty men, besides those who came to us from among the nations that were around us.