Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version I and my brothers and my men are also lending the people money and grain. But let us stop charging interest! New Living Translation I myself, as well as my brothers and my workers, have been lending the people money and grain, but now let us stop this business of charging interest. English Standard Version Moreover, I and my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Let us abandon this exacting of interest. Berean Standard Bible I, as well as my brothers and my servants, have been lending the people money and grain. Please, let us stop this usury. King James Bible I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury. New King James Version I also, with my brethren and my servants, am lending them money and grain. Please, let us stop this usury! New American Standard Bible And likewise I, my brothers, and my servants are lending them money and grain. Please, let’s do without this interest. NASB 1995 “And likewise I, my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Please, let us leave off this usury. NASB 1977 “And likewise I, my brothers and my servants, are lending them money and grain. Please, let us leave off this usury. Legacy Standard Bible And likewise I, my brothers, and my young men are lending them money and grain. Please, let us forsake this usury. Amplified Bible And likewise I, my brothers, and my servants are lending them money and grain. Please, let us stop [charging] this interest. Christian Standard Bible Even I, as well as my brothers and my servants, have been lending them money and grain. Please, let’s stop charging this interest. Holman Christian Standard Bible Even I, as well as my brothers and my servants, have been lending them money and grain. Please, let us stop charging this interest. 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. Contemporary English Version My relatives, my friends, and I are also lending money and grain, but we must no longer demand payment in return. English Revised Version And I likewise, my brethren and my servants, do lend them money and corn on usury. I pray you, let us leave off this usury. GOD'S WORD® Translation My brothers, my servants, and I are lending money and grain to the poor. But we must stop charging them interest. Good News Translation I have let the people borrow money and grain from me, and so have my companions and those who work for me. Now let's give up all our claims to repayment. International Standard Version I'm also lending money and grain, as are my fellow-Jews and my servants, but let's not charge interest. Majority Standard Bible I, as well as my brothers and my servants, have been lending the people money and grain. Please, let us stop this usury. NET Bible Even I and my relatives and my associates are lending them money and grain. But let us abandon this practice of seizing collateral! New Heart English Bible I likewise, my brothers and my servants, lend them money and grain. Please let us stop this usury. Webster's Bible Translation I likewise, 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. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionAnd also, I, my brothers, and my servants, are exacting silver and grain on them; please 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. Smith's Literal Translation And also I, my brethren and my young men exacting upon them silver and grain: we will leave off now this debt. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleBoth 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. Catholic Public Domain Version Both I and my brothers, with my servants, have lent money and grain to many. Let us agree not to ask for its return. Let us forgive the other money that is owed to us. New American Bible I myself, my kindred, and my attendants have lent the people money and grain without charge. Let us put an end to this usury! New Revised Standard Version Moreover I and my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Let us stop this taking of interest. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleI, likewise, and my sons and my brothers will take money, and will buy grain and will remit the debts of the poor who are among us. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Also I and my sons and my brethren will take money, we will sell grain and we shall release the poor who are among our people. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917And I likewise, my brethren and my servants, have lent them money and corn. I pray you, let us leave off this exaction. Brenton Septuagint Translation Both my brethren, and my acquaintances, and I, have lent them money and corn: let us now leave off this exaction. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Nehemiah Defends the Oppressed…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? 10I, as well as my brothers and my servants, have been lending the people money and grain. Please, let us stop this usury. 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.”… Cross References Exodus 22:25 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. Leviticus 25:35-37 Now if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you. / Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you. / You must not lend him your silver at interest or sell him your food for profit. Deuteronomy 23:19-20 Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan. / You may charge a foreigner interest, but not your brother, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything to which you put your hand in the land that you are entering to possess. Psalm 15:5 who lends his money without interest and refuses a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken. Proverbs 28:8 He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor. Ezekiel 18:8 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 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. Ezekiel 18:17 He withholds his hand from harming the poor and takes no interest or usury. He keeps My ordinances and follows My statutes. Such a man will not die for his father’s iniquity. He will surely live. Ezekiel 22:12 In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD. Matthew 5:42 Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you. Luke 6:34-35 And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid in full. / But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. Luke 12:33 Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. Luke 16:9 I tell you, use worldly wealth to make friends for yourselves so that when it is gone, they will welcome you into eternal dwellings. Romans 12:13 Share with the saints who are in need. Practice hospitality. 2 Corinthians 8:9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich. Treasury of Scripture I likewise, and my brothers, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury. I likewise Micah 2:1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. Luke 3:13,14 And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you… 1 Corinthians 9:12-18 If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ… I pray you 2 Corinthians 5:11,20 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences… 2 Corinthians 6:1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. Philemon 1:8,9 Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient, … leave Nehemiah 5:7 Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them. Exodus 22:25-27 If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury… Psalm 15:5 He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved. Jump to Previous Corn Exact Exacting Exaction Grain Interest Lent Likewise Money Moreover Please Servants Silver Stop UsuryJump to Next Corn Exact Exacting Exaction Grain Interest Lent Likewise Money Moreover Please Servants Silver Stop UsuryNehemiah 5 1. The Jews complain of their debt, mortgage, and bondage6. Nehemiah rebukes the usurers, and causes them to make a covenant of restitution 14. He forbears his own allowance, and keeps hospitality I, as well as my brothers and my servants This phrase highlights Nehemiah's personal involvement and leadership. The Hebrew root for "I" (אֲנִי, 'ani) emphasizes Nehemiah's personal commitment and responsibility. By including "my brothers and my servants," Nehemiah demonstrates a communal approach, showing that leadership involves both personal action and collective responsibility. Historically, this reflects the Jewish community's interconnectedness during the post-exilic period, where leaders were expected to set an example for others. have been lending them money and grain But let us stop charging this interest! Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew I,אֲנִי֙ (’ă·nî) Pronoun - first person common singular Strong's 589: I as well as וְגַם־ (wə·ḡam-) Conjunctive waw | Conjunction Strong's 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and my brothers אַחַ֣י (’a·ḥay) Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular Strong's 251: A brother, ) and my servants, וּנְעָרַ֔י (ū·nə·‘ā·ray) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular Strong's 5288: A boy, lad, youth, retainer have been lending נֹשִׁ֥ים (nō·šîm) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural Strong's 5383: To lend, borrow on security, interest [the people] בָּהֶ֖ם (bā·hem) Preposition | third person masculine plural Strong's Hebrew money כֶּ֣סֶף (ke·sep̄) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 3701: Silver, money and grain. וְדָגָ֑ן (wə·ḏā·ḡān) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 1715: Corn, grain (of cereals) Please, נָּ֖א (nā) Interjection Strong's 4994: I pray', 'now', 'then' let us stop נַֽעַזְבָה־ (na·‘az·ḇāh-) Verb - Qal - Imperfect Cohortative - first person common plural Strong's 5800: To loosen, relinquish, permit this הַזֶּֽה׃ (haz·zeh) Article | Pronoun - masculine singular Strong's 2088: This, that usury. הַמַּשָּׁ֥א (ham·maš·šā) Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 4855: A loan, interest on a, debt Links Nehemiah 5:10 NIVNehemiah 5:10 NLT Nehemiah 5:10 ESV Nehemiah 5:10 NASB Nehemiah 5:10 KJV Nehemiah 5:10 BibleApps.com Nehemiah 5:10 Biblia Paralela Nehemiah 5:10 Chinese Bible Nehemiah 5:10 French Bible Nehemiah 5:10 Catholic Bible OT History: Nehemiah 5:10 I likewise my brothers and my servants (Neh Ne) |
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