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<A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And also, I, my brothers, and my servants, are exacting silver and grain on them; please let us leave off this usury. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Please give back to them, as today, their fields, their vineyards, their olive-yards, and their houses, and the hundredth [part] of the money, and of the grain, of the new wine, and of the oil, that you are exacting of them.” <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And they say, “We give back, and we seek nothing from them; so we do as you are saying.” And I call the priests, and cause them to swear to do according to this thing; <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>also, I have shaken my lap, and I say, “Thus God shakes out every man from his house and from his labor who does not perform this thing; indeed, thus is he shaken out and empty”; and all the assembly says, “Amen,” and praises YHWH; and the people do according to this thing.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Also, from the day that he appointed me to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king—twelve years—I, and my brothers, have not eaten the bread of the governor: <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>the former governors who [are] before me have made themselves heavy on the people, and take of them in bread and wine, besides forty shekels in silver; also, their servants have ruled over the people—and I have not done so, because of the fear of God. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And also, in the work of this wall I have done mightily, even a field we have not bought, and all my servants are gathered there for the work; <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>and of the Jews, and of the prefects, one hundred and fifty men, and those coming to us of the nations that [are] around us, [are] at my table; <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>and that which has been prepared for one day [is] one ox, six fat sheep, also birds have been prepared for me, and once in ten days of all wines abundantly, and with this, the bread of the governor I have not sought, for heavy is the service on this people. <span class="reftext"><a href="/nehemiah/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Remember for me, O my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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