Nehemiah 10:31 “When the people of the land bring merchandise or any kind of grain to…”

Nehemiah 10:31

When the people of the land bring merchandise or any kind of grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we will not buy from them on a Sabbath or holy day. Every seventh year we will let the fields lie fallow and will cancel every debt.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

World English Bible

and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year crops and the exaction of every debt.

American Standard Version

and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy of them on the sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

Geneva Bible 1599

And if the people of the lande brought ware on the Sabbath, or any vitailes to sell, that we would not take it of them on the Sabbath and on the holy dayes: and that we would let the seuenth yeere be free, and the debtes of euery person.

Darby Translation

and that if the peoples of the land brought wares or any grain on the sabbath day to sell, we would not take it of them on the sabbath, or on [any] holy day; and that we would leave [the land uncultivated] the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

Young's Literal Translation

and the peoples of the land who are bringing in the wares and any corn on the sabbath-day to sell, we receive not of them on the sabbath, and on a holy day, and we leave the seventh year, and usury on every hand.

Bible in Basic English

And if the peoples of the lands come to do trade in goods or food on the Sabbath day, that we would do no trade with them on the Sabbath or on a holy day: and that in the seventh year we would take no payment from any debtor.

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Cross references

“the people”

Nehemiah 13:15–22 Leviticus 23:3 Exodus 20:10 Deuteronomy 5:12–14 Isaiah 58:13 Isaiah 58:14

Nehemiah 13:15–22 · BSB

In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, along with wine, grapes, and figs. All kinds of goods were being brought into Jerusalem on the Sabb…

Leviticus 23:3 · BSB

For six days work may be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, a day of sacred assembly. You must not do any work; wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to the LORD.

Exodus 20:10 · BSB

but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant or livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates.

Deuteronomy 5:12–14 · BSB

Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you.

Isaiah 58:13 · BSB

If you turn your foot from breaking the Sabbath, from doing as you please on My holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight, and the LORD’s holy day honorable, if you honor it by not going your own way or seeking your ow…

Isaiah 58:14 · BSB

then you will delight yourself in the LORD, and I will make you ride on the heights of the land and feed you with the heritage of your father Jacob.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

“on the holy day”

Exodus 12:16 Leviticus 16:29 Leviticus 23:21 Colossians 2:16 Leviticus 23:35 Leviticus 23:36

Exodus 12:16 · BSB

On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly, and another on the seventh day. You must not do any work on those days, except to prepare the meals—that is all you may do.

Leviticus 16:29 · BSB

This is to be a permanent statute for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month, you shall humble yourselves and not do any work—whether the native or the foreigner who resides among you—

Leviticus 23:21 · BSB

On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly, and you must not do any regular work. This is to be a permanent statute wherever you live for the generations to come.

Colossians 2:16 · BSB

Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or a Sabbath.

Leviticus 23:35 · BSB

On the first day there shall be a sacred assembly. You must not do any regular work.

Leviticus 23:36 · BSB

For seven days you are to present a food offering to the LORD. On the eighth day you are to hold a sacred assembly and present a food offering to the LORD. It is a solemn assembly; you must not do any regular work.

“and that we”

2 Chronicles 36:21 Exodus 23:10 Exodus 23:11 Leviticus 25:4–7

2 Chronicles 36:21 · BSB

So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah.

Exodus 23:10 · BSB

For six years you are to sow your land and gather its produce,

Exodus 23:11 · BSB

but in the seventh year you must let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor among your people may eat from the field and the wild animals may consume what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and olive grove.

Leviticus 25:4–7 · BSB

But in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land—a Sabbath to the LORD. You are not to sow your field or prune your vineyard.

“the exaction”

Nehemiah 5:1–13 Deuteronomy 15:1–3 Deuteronomy 15:7–9 Matthew 6:12 Matthew 18:27–35 James 2:13

Nehemiah 5:1–13 · BSB

About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.

Deuteronomy 15:1–3 · BSB

At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts.

Deuteronomy 15:7–9 · BSB

If there is a poor man among your brothers within any of the gates in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, then you are not to harden your heart or shut your hand from your poor brother.

Matthew 6:12 · BSB

And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

Matthew 18:27–35 · BSB

His master had compassion on him, forgave his debt, and released him.

James 2:13 · BSB

For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

“debt”

Isaiah 58:6

Isaiah 58:6 · BSB

Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke?

Also

Leviticus 25:1–7

Leviticus 25:1–7 · BSB

Then the LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

30We will not give our daughters in marriage to the people of the land, and we will not take their daughters for our sons.

32We also place ourselves under the obligation to contribute a third of a shekel yearly for the service of the house of our God:

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