Nehemiah 5:7
1599 Geneva Bible
7 And I thought in my mind, and I rebuked the princes, and the rulers, and said unto them, You lay [a]burdens every one upon his brethren: and I set a great [b]assembly against them,
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- Nehemiah 5:7 You press them with usury, and seek how to bring all things into your hands.
- Nehemiah 5:7 Both because they should be moved with pity, seeing how many were by them oppressed, and also hear the judgment of others, which should be as it were witnesses of their dealings toward their brethren.
Nehemiah 5:15
1599 Geneva Bible
15 For the former governors that were before me, had been chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver: yea, and their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
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