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Nehemiah 5 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:1 - And the cry of the people and their wives was great against their brethren the Jews.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:2 - And some said, We are numerous with our sons and our daughters; so we will take corn, and eat, and live.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:3 - And some said, As to our fields and vineyards and houses, let us pledge them, and we will take corn, and eat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:4 - And some said, We have borrowed money for the king's tributes:—our fields, and our vineyards, and houses are pledged.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:5 - And now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children are as their children: yet, behold, we are reducing our sons and our daughters to slavery, and some of our daughters are enslaved: and there is no power of our hands, for our fields and our vineyards belong to the nobles.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:6 - And I was much grieved as I heard their cry and these words.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:7 - And my heart took counsel within me, and I contended against the nobles, and the princes, and I said to them, Should every man demand of his brother what ye demand? And I appointed against them a great assembly,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:8 - and I said to them, We of our free-will have redeemed our brethren the Jews that were sold to the Gentiles; and do ye sell your brethren? and shall they be delivered to us? And they were silent, and found no answer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:9 - And I said, The thing which ye do is not good; ye will not so walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the Gentiles our enemies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:10 - Both my brethren, and my acquaintances, and I, have lent them money and corn: let us now leave off this exaction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:11 - Restore to them, I pray, as at this day, their fields, and their vineyards, and their olive-yards, and their houses, and bring forth to them corn and wine and oil of the money.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:12 - And they said, We will restore, and we will not exact of them; we will do thus as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and bound them by oath to do according to this word.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:13 - And I shook out my garment, and said, So may God shake out every man who shall not keep to this word, from his house, and from his labours, he shall be even thus shaken out, as an outcast and empty. And all the congregation said, Amen, and they praised the Lord: and the people did this thing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:14 - From the day that he charged me to be their ruler in the land of Juda, from the twentieth year even to the thirty-second year of Arthasastha, twelve years, I and my brethren ate not provision extorted from them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:15 - But as for the former acts of extortion wherein those who were before me oppressed them, they even took of them their last money, forty didrachms for bread and wine; and the very outcasts of them exercised authority over the people: but I did not so, because of the fear of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:16 - Also in the work of the wall I treated them not with rigor, I bought not land: and all that were gathered together came thither to the work.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:17 - And the Jews, to the number of a hundred and fifty men, besides those coming to us from the nations round about, were at my table.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:18 - And there came to me for one day one calf, and I had six choice sheep and a goat; and every ten days wine in abundance of all sorts: yet with these I required not the bread of extortion, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:19 - Remember me, O God, for good, in all that I have done to this people.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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