Nehemiah 5:10

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

And also, I, my brothers, and my servants, are exacting silver and grain on them; please let us leave off this usury.

YLT

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

DBY

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.

DRC

Both I and my brethren, and my servants, have lent money and corn to many: let us all agree not to call for it again; let us forgive the debt that is owing to us.

GNV

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

JPS

And I likewise, my brethren and my servants, have lent them money and corn. I pray you, let us leave off this exaction.

LXXE

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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Original-language editions

WLC

וְגַם־אֲנִי֙ אַחַ֣י וּנְעָרַ֔י נֹשִׁ֥ים בָּהֶ֖ם כֶּ֣סֶף וְדָגָ֑ן נַֽעַזְבָה־נָּ֖א אֶת־הַמַּשָּׁ֥א הַזֶּֽה׃

LXX-Br15:10

Καὶ οἱ ἀδελφοί μου καὶ οἱ γνωστοί μου καὶ ἐγὼ ἐθήκαμεν αὐτοῖς ἀργύριον καὶ σῖτον· ἐγκατελίπωμεν δὴ τὴν ἀπαίτησιν ταύτην.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• 2 Corinthians 6:1As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
• Exodus 22:25–27If 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. If you take your neighbor’s cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,…
• 1 Corinthians 9:12–18If 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. Do you not know that those who…
• Micah 2:1Woe 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.
• Nehemiah 5:7and 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
• 2 Corinthians 5:11Therefore, 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.
• Ezekiel 18:8He does not engage in usury or take excess interest, but he withholds his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between men.
• Ezekiel 18:13He 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.
• Psalms 15:5who lends his money without interest and refuses a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.
• Luke 3:13–14“Collect no more than you are authorized,” he answered. 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.”
• Philemon 1:8–9So although in Christ I am bold enough to order you to do what is proper, I prefer to appeal on the basis of love. For I, Paul, am now aged, and a prisoner of Christ Jesus as well.
• 2 Corinthians 5:20Therefore 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.

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