Nehemiah 5:10
8 and said, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish brothers who were sold to foreigners, but now you are selling your own brothers, that they may be sold back to us!” But they remained silent, for they could find nothing to say.
9 So I continued, “What you are doing is not right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of our foreign enemies?
I, as well as my brothers and my servants, have been lending the people money and grain. Please, let us stop this usury.
11 Please restore to them immediately their fields, vineyards, olive groves, and houses, along with the percentage of the money, grain, new wine, and oil that you have been assessing them.”
12 “We will restore it,” they replied, “and will require nothing more from them. We will do as you say.” So I summoned the priests and required of the nobles and officials an oath that they would do what they had promised.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I, as well as my brothers and my servants, have been lending the people money and grain. Please, let us stop this usury.
- KJV
- I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.
- WEB
- I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.
- ASV
- And I likewise, my brethren and my servants, do lend them money and grain. I pray you, let us leave off this usury.
- DARBY
- 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.
- BLB
- And also I, my brothers, and my servants, have been lending to them silver and grain. Please let us stop this usury.
- ÅB
- Også jeg og mine brødre og mine folk har lånt dem penger og korn; la oss ettergi denne gjeld!
- OTB
- Jeg, mine brødre og mine menn låner dem også penger og korn. La oss opphøre med denne renten!
- B1930
- Også jeg og mine brødre og mine folk har lånt dem penger og korn; la oss eftergi denne gjeld!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Corinthians 6:1
As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
Read in contextExodus 22:25–27
If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.
Read in contextEzekiel 18:13
He engages in usury and takes excess interest. Will this son live? He will not! Since he has committed all these abominations, he will surely die; his blood will be on his own head.
Read in context1 Corinthians 9:12–18
If others have this right to your support, shouldn’t we have it all the more? But we did not exercise this right. Instead, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ.
Read in contextMicah 2:1
Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
Read in context2 Corinthians 5:20
Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ: Be reconciled to God.
Read in contextEzekiel 18:8
He does not engage in usury or take excess interest, but he withholds his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between men.
Read in contextPhilemon 1:8–9
So although in Christ I am bold enough to order you to do what is proper,
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