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Nehemiah
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| Nehemiah 5:1 |
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Then there
arose a great cry of the people and of their
wives against their brethren the Jews. |
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| Nehemiah 5:2 |
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For there
were that said, We, our sons and our daughters,
are many: let us get grain, that we may
eat and live. |
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| Nehemiah 5:3 |
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Some also
there were that said, We are mortgaging
our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses:
let us get grain, because of the dearth.
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| Nehemiah 5:4 |
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There were
also that said, We have borrowed money for
the king's tribute upon our fields and our
vineyards. |
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| Nehemiah 5:5 |
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Yet now
our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren,
our children as their children: and, lo,
we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters
to be servants, and some of our daughters
are brought into bondage already: neither
is it in our power to help it; for other
men have our fields and our vineyards. |
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| Nehemiah 5:6 |
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And I was
very angry when I heard their cry and these
words. |
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| Nehemiah 5:7 |
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Then I consulted
with myself, and contended with the nobles
and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact
usury, every one of his brother. And I held
a great assembly against them. |
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| Nehemiah 5:8 |
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And I said
unto them, We after our ability have redeemed
our brethren the Jews, that were sold unto
the nations; and would ye even sell your
brethren, and should they be sold unto us?
Then held they their peace, and found never
a word. |
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| Nehemiah 5:9 |
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Also I said,
The thing that ye do is not good: ought
ye not to walk in the fear of our God, because
of the reproach of the nations our enemies?
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| Nehemiah 5:10 |
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And I likewise,
my brethren and my servants, do lend them
money and grain. I pray you, let us leave
off this usury. |
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| Nehemiah 5:11 |
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Restore,
I pray you, to them, even this day, their
fields, their vineyards, their oliveyards,
and their houses, also the hundredth part
of the money, and of the grain, the new
wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.
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| Nehemiah 5:12 |
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Then said
they, We will restore them, and will require
nothing of them; so will we do, even as
thou sayest. Then I called the priests,
and took an oath of them, that they would
do according to this promise. |
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| Nehemiah 5:13 |
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Also I shook
out my lap, and said, So God shake out every
man from his house, and from his labor,
that performeth not this promise; even thus
be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the
assembly said, Amen, and praised Jehovah.
And the people did according to this promise.
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| Nehemiah 5:14 |
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Moreover
from the time that I was appointed to be
their governor in the land of Judah, from
the twentieth year even unto the two and
thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that
is, twelve years, I and my brethren have
not eaten the bread of the governor. |
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| Nehemiah 5:15 |
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But the
former governors that were before me were
chargeable unto the people, and took of
them bread and wine, besides forty shekels
of silver; yea, even their servants bare
rule over the people: but so did not I,
because of the fear of God. |
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| Nehemiah 5:16 |
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Yea, also
I continued in the work of this wall, neither
bought we any land: and all my servants
were gathered thither unto the work. |
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| Nehemiah 5:17 |
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Moreover
there were at my table, of the Jews and
the rulers, a hundred and fifty men, besides
those that came unto us from among the nations
that were round about us. |
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| Nehemiah 5:18 |
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Now that
which was prepared for one day was one ox
and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared
for me, and once in ten days store of all
sorts of wine: yet for all this I demanded
not the bread of the governor, because the
bondage was heavy upon this people. |
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| Nehemiah 5:19 |
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Remember
unto me, O my God, for good, all that I
have done for this people. |
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