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Nehemiah 5 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:1 - Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Yehudim.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:2 - For there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many: let us get grain, that we may eat and live.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:3 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:4 - There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute on our fields and our vineyards.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:5 - Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children: and, behold, 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:6 - I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:7 - Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, You exact usury, everyone of his brother. I held a great assembly against them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:8 - I said to them, We after our ability have redeemed our brothers the Yehudim, that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us? Then held they their shalom, and found never a word.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:9 - Also I said, The thing that you do is not good: ought you not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:10 - I likewise, my brothers and my servants, do lend them money and grain. Please let us leave off this usury.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:11 - Please restore to them, even this day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you exact of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:12 - Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do, even as you say. Then I called the Kohanim, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:13 - Also I shook out my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that doesn't perform this promise; even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. All the assembly said, Amein, and praised the LORD. The people did according to this promise.

Nehemiah's Example

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:14 - Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Yehudah, from the twentieth year even to the two and thirtieth year of Artachshasta the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brothers have not eaten the bread of the governor.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:15 - But the former governors who were before me were chargeable to the people, and took of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants bore rule over the people: but I didn't do so, because of the fear of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:16 - Yes, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants were gathered there to the work.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:17 - Moreover there were at my table, of the Yehudim and the rulers, one hundred fifty men, besides those who came to us from among the nations that were round about us.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:18 - 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 didn't demand the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy on this people.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:19 - Remember to me, my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.
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The Hebrew Names Version is based off the World English Bible, an update of the American Standard Version of 1901. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

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