10 I also, with my brethren and my servants, am lending them money and grain. Please, let us stop this¹ usury!  ‡

11 Restore now to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also a hundredth of the money and the grain, the new wine and the oil, that you have charged them.”

13 Then ^aI shook out the fold of my garment and said, “So may God shake out each man from his house, and from his property, who does not perform this promise. Even thus may he be shaken out and emptied.” And all the assembly said, “Amen!” and praised the Lord. ^bThen the people did according to this promise.  ‡

14 Moreover, from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year ^auntil the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes, twelve years, neither I nor my brothers ^bate the governor’s provisions.  ‡