Nehemiah 5:10

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

I likewise, and my brethren {H251}, and my servants {H5288}, might exact {H5383} of them money {H3701} and corn {H1715}: I pray you, let us leave off {H5800} this usury {H4855}.

Moreover, my brothers and my servants, I too have loaned them money and grain. Please, let's stop making it so burdensome to go into debt.

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

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

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Cross-References

  • Exodus 22:25 (3 votes)

    ¶ 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.

  • Exodus 22:27 (3 votes)

    For that [is] his covering only, it [is] his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I [am] gracious.

  • Philemon 1:8 (2 votes)

    ¶ Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient,

  • Philemon 1:9 (2 votes)

    Yet for love's sake I rather beseech [thee], being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

  • 1 Corinthians 9:12 (2 votes)

    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.

  • 1 Corinthians 9:18 (2 votes)

    What is my reward then? [Verily] that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.

  • Micah 2:1 (2 votes)

    ¶ 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.