Nehemiah 5:10 “I, as well as my brothers and my servants, have been lending the peopl…”

Nehemiah 5:10

I, as well as my brothers and my servants, have been lending the people money and grain. Please, let us stop this usury.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.

World English Bible

I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury.

American Standard Version

And I likewise, my brethren and my servants, do lend them money and grain. I pray you, let us leave off this usury.

Geneva Bible 1599

For euen I, my brethren, and my seruants doe lende them money and corne: I pray you, let vs leaue off this burden.

Darby Translation

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.

Young's Literal Translation

And also, I, my brethren, and my servants, are exacting of them silver and corn; let us leave off, I pray you, this usury.

Bible in Basic English

Even I and my servants have been taking interest for the money and the grain we have let them have. So now, let us give up this thing.

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Cross references

“I likewise”

Micah 2:1 1 Corinthians 9:12–18 Luke 3:13 Luke 3:14

Micah 2:1 · BSB

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.

1 Corinthians 9:12–18 · BSB

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.

Luke 3:13 · BSB

“Collect no more than you are authorized,” he answered.

Luke 3:14 · BSB

Then some soldiers asked him, “And what should we do?” “Do not take money by force or false accusation,” he said. “Be content with your wages.”

“I pray you”

2 Corinthians 6:1 2 Corinthians 5:11 2 Corinthians 5:20 Philemon 1:8 Philemon 1:9

2 Corinthians 6:1 · BSB

As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.

2 Corinthians 5:11 · BSB

Therefore, since we know what it means to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men. What we are is clear to God, and I hope it is clear to your conscience as well.

2 Corinthians 5:20 · BSB

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.

Philemon 1:8 · BSB

So although in Christ I am bold enough to order you to do what is proper,

Philemon 1:9 · BSB

I prefer to appeal on the basis of love. For I, Paul, am now aged, and a prisoner of Christ Jesus as well.

“leave”

Exodus 22:25–27 Nehemiah 5:7 Psalm 15:5 Ezekiel 18:8 Ezekiel 18:13

Exodus 22:25–27 · BSB

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.

Nehemiah 5:7 · BSB

and after serious thought I rebuked the nobles and officials, saying, “You are exacting usury from your own brothers!” So I called a large assembly against them

Psalm 15:5 · BSB

who lends his money without interest and refuses a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.

Ezekiel 18:8 · BSB

He does not engage in usury or take excess interest, but he withholds his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between men.

Ezekiel 18:13 · BSB

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.

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

In context

9So 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?

11Please 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.”

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