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Neh 5:11 — Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.

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Restore	Lev 6:4,5; 1Sa 12:3; 2Sa 12:6; Isa 58:6; Luk 3:8
their lands	Neh 5:3,4
the hundredth	This was probably the rate of interest which they obliged their poor debtors to pay each month, which would amount to about 12 per cent. Another author states that this is the lowest rate of interest in Syria: the usual rate is 20; and it is sometimes as high as 30 per cent.