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7 But I was patient, and I consulted with the elders and with the rulers, and said to them, 8 We are redeeming our brethren the Jews, who were sold to the nations, both they and their children, and will you even take a man in pledge for his brother? Therefore I shouted at them, and said to them, Will you also sell your brethren? Then they were silent, and did not answer me. 9 Also I said to them, The thing that you are doing is not good; for now you are not walking in the reverence of our God, because you are behaving like the nations which are round about us. 10 I, 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. Nehemiah 5:7-10, Lamsa Bible. Public domain.
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