Nehemiah 5:8-10
Christian Standard Bible Anglicised
8 and said, ‘We have done our best to buy back our Jewish countrymen who were sold to foreigners, but now you sell your own countrymen, and we have to buy them back.’(A) They remained silent and could not say a word.(B) 9 Then I said, ‘What you are doing isn’t right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God(C) and not invite the reproach of our foreign enemies?(D) 10 Even I, as well as my brothers and my servants, have been lending them money and grain. Please, let’s stop charging this interest.[a]
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- 5:10 Or us forgive these debts
Nehemiah 5:8-10
King James Version
8 And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer.
9 Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?
10 I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.
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