Nehemiah 5:2-13 For there were that said , We, our sons , and our daughters , are many : therefore we take up grain for them, that we may eat , and live.

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2 H3426 For there were H559 [H8802] that said H1121 , We, our sons H1323 , and our daughters H7227 , are many H3947 [H8799] : therefore we take up H1715 grain H398 [H8799] for them, that we may eat H2421 [H8799] , and live.

3 H3426 Some also there were H559 [H8802] that said H6148 [H8802] , We have mortgaged H7704 our lands H3754 , vineyards H1004 , and houses H3947 [H8799] , that we might buy H1715 grain H7458 , because of the famine.

4 H3426 There were H559 [H8802] also that said H3867 [H8804] , We have borrowed H3701 money H4428 for the king's H4060 tax H7704 , and that upon our lands H3754 and vineyards.

5 H1320 Yet now our flesh H1320 is as the flesh H251 of our brethren H1121 , our children H1121 as their children H3533 [H8802] : and, lo, we bring into bondage H1121 our sons H1323 and our daughters H5650 to be servants H1323 , and some of our daughters H3426 are H3533 [H8737] brought to bondage H410 H3027 already: neither is it in our power H312 to redeem them; for other men H7704 have our lands H3754 and vineyards.

6 H3966 And I was very H2734 [H8799] angry H8085 [H8804] when I heard H2201 their cry H1697 and these words.

7 H4427 [H8735] Then I consulted H3820 with myself H7378 [H8799] , and I rebuked H2715 the nobles H5461 , and the rulers H559 [H8799] , and said H5378 H5383 H5375 [H8801] to them, Ye exact H4855 interest H376 , every one H251 of his brother H5414 [H8799] . And I set H1419 a great H6952 assembly against them.

8 H559 [H8799] And I said H1767 to them, We after our ability H7069 [H8804] have redeemed H251 our brethren H3064 the Jews H4376 [H8737] , who were sold H1471 to the heathen H4376 [H8799] ; and will ye even sell H251 your brethren H4376 [H8738] ? or shall they be sold H2790 [H8686] to us? Then they held their peace H4672 [H8804] , and found H1697 nothing to answer.

9 H559 [H8799] Also I said H2896 , That is not good H1697 which H6213 [H8802] ye do H3212 [H8799] : ought ye not to walk H3374 in the fear H430 of our God H2781 because of the reproach H1471 of the heathen H341 [H8802] our enemies?

10 H251 I likewise, my brethren H5288 , and my servants H5383 [H8802] , might exact H3701 of them money H1715 and grain H5800 [H8799] : I pray you, let us stop H4855 charging interest.

11 H7725 [H8685] Restore H3117 , I pray you, to them, even this day H7704 , their lands H3754 , their vineyards H2132 , their oliveyards H1004 , and their houses H3967 , also the hundredth H3701 part of the money H1715 , and of the grain H8492 , the wine H3323 , and the oil H5383 [H8802] , that ye exact of them.

12 H559 [H8799] Then said H7725 [H8686] they, We will restore H1245 [H8762] them, and will require H6213 [H8799] nothing of them; so will we do H559 [H8802] as thou sayest H7121 [H8799] . Then I called H3548 the priests H7650 [H8686] , and took an oath H6213 [H8800] of them, that they should do H1697 according to this promise.

13 H5287 [H8804] Also I shook H2684 my lap H559 [H8799] , and said H430 , So God H5287 [H8762] shake out H376 every man H1004 from his house H3018 , and from his labour H6965 [H8686] , that performeth H1697 not this promise H5287 [H8803] , even thus be he shaken out H7386 , and emptied H6951 . And all the congregation H559 [H8799] said H543 , Amen H1984 [H8762] , and praised H3068 the LORD H5971 . And the people H6213 [H8799] did H1697 according to this promise.