Nehemiah 5:1 Cross References - BBE

¹ Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their countrymen the Jews.

⁷ And God said, Truly, I have seen the grief of my people in Egypt, and their cry because of their cruel masters has come to my ears; for I have knowledge of their sorrows;

²⁵ If you let any of the poor among my people have the use of your money, do not be a hard creditor to him, and do not take interest. ²⁶ If ever you take your neighbour's clothing in exchange for the use of your money, let him have it back before the sun goes down: ²⁷ For it is the only thing he has for covering his skin; what is he to go to sleep in? and when his cry comes up to me, I will give ear, for my mercy is great.

³⁵ And if your brother becomes poor and is not able to make a living, then you are to keep him with you, helping him as you would a man from another country who is living among you. ³⁶ Take no interest from him, in money or in goods, but have the fear of your God before you, and let your brother make a living among you. ³⁷ Do not take interest on the money which you let him have or on the food which you give him.

⁷ If in any of your towns in the land which the Lord your God is giving you, there is a poor man, one of your countrymen, do not let your heart be hard or your hand shut to him; ⁸ But let your hand be open to give him the use of whatever he is in need of. ⁹ And see that there is no evil thought in your heart, moving you to say to yourself, The seventh year, the year of forgiveness is near; and so looking coldly on your poor countryman you give him nothing; and he will make an outcry to the Lord against you, and it will be judged as sin in you. ¹⁰ But it is right for you to give to him, without grief of heart: for because of this, the blessing of the Lord your God will be on all your work and on everything to which you put your hand. ¹¹ For there will never be a time when there are no poor in the land; and so I give orders to you, Let your hand be open to your countrymen, to those who are poor and in need in your land.

³⁸ If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow; ³⁹ If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;

²⁸ So that the cry of the poor might come up to him, and the prayer of those in need come to his ears.

⁷ For the vine-garden of the Lord of armies is the people of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he was looking for upright judging, and there was blood; for righteousness, and there was a cry for help.

⁷ And will not God do right in the cause of his saints, whose cries come day and night to his ears, though he is long in doing it?

²⁶ And the day after, he came to them, while they were having a fight, and would have made peace between them, saying, Sirs, you are brothers; why do you do wrong to one another?

⁶ But a brother who has a cause at law against another takes it before Gentile judges. ⁷ More than this, it is not to your credit to have causes at law with one another at all. Why not put up with wrong? why not undergo loss? ⁸ So far from doing this, you yourselves do wrong and take your brothers' property.

⁴ See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.