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Nehemiah 5:10
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8 And I said to them, “According to our ability we have aredeemed our Jewish brethren who were sold to the nations. Now indeed, will you even sell your brethren? Or should they be sold to us?” Then they were silenced and found nothing to say.  
9 Then I said, “What you are doing is not good. Should you not walk ain the fear of our God bbecause of the reproach of the nations, our enemies?  
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.”
12 So they said, “We will restore it, and will require nothing from them; we will do as you say.” Then I called the priests, aand required an oath from them that they would do according to this promise.  
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.  

The Generosity of Nehemiah

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.  
Verse Comparison: Nehemiah 5:10

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American Standard Version
And I likewise, my brethren and my servants, do lend them money and grain. I pray you, let us leave off this usury.

Amplified® Bible
I, my brethren, and my servants are lending them money and grain. Let us stop this forbidden interest!

Contemporary English Version
My relatives, my friends, and I are also lending money and grain, but we must no longer demand payment in return.

Darby English Version
I also, my brethren and my servants, we might exact usury of them, money and corn. I pray you, let us leave off this usury.

Good News Bible
I have let the people borrow money and grain from me, and so have my companions and those who work for me. Now let's give up all our claims to repayment.

King James Version
I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.

New American Standard Bible
"And likewise I, my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Please, let us leave off this usury.

New International Version
I and my brothers and my men are also lending the people money and grain. But let the exacting of usury stop!

New King James Version
I also, with my brethren and my servants, am lending them money and grain. Please, let us stop this usury!

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
"And likewise I, my brothers and my servants have lent them money and grain. Please, let us leave off this usury.

Revised Standard Version
Moreover I and my brethren and my servants are lending them money and grain. Let us leave off this interest.

Young's Literal Translation
And also, I, my brethren, and my servants, are exacting of them silver and corn; let us leave off, I pray you, this usury.


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