English Bible Presentation Sharing - Nehemiah Book, chapter 5, verse 36 in Lxxen Version

Nehemiah 5 : 1 (LXXEN)

And the cry of the people and their wives was great against their brethren the Jews.

Nehemiah 5 : 2 (LXXEN)

And some said, We are numerous with our sons and our daughters; so we will take corn, and eat, and live.

Nehemiah 5 : 3 (LXXEN)

And some said, As to our fields and vineyards and houses, let us pledge them, and we will take corn, and eat.

Nehemiah 5 : 4 (LXXEN)

And some said, We have borrowed money for the king’s tributes:—our fields, and our vineyards, and houses are pledged.

Nehemiah 5 : 5 (LXXEN)

And now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children are as their children: yet, behold, we are *Gr. controlling tyrannically reducing our sons and our daughters to Gr. slaves slavery, and some of our daughters are enslaved: and there is no power of our hands, for our fields and our vineyards belong to the nobles.

Nehemiah 5 : 6 (LXXEN)

And I was much grieved as I heard their cry and these words.

Nehemiah 5 : 7 (LXXEN)

And my heart took counsel *Gr. upon me within me, and I contended against the nobles, and the princes, and I said to them, Gr. shall Should every man demand of his brother what ye demand? And I appointed against them a great assembly,

Nehemiah 5 : 8 (LXXEN)

and I said to them, We of our free-will have redeemed our brethren the Jews that were sold to the Gentiles; and do ye sell your brethren? and shall they be delivered to us? And they were silent, and found no answer.

Nehemiah 5 : 9 (LXXEN)

And I said, The thing which ye do is not good; ye will not so walk in the fear of our God *Gr. from because of the reproach of the Gentiles our enemies.

Nehemiah 5 : 10 (LXXEN)

Both my brethren, and my acquaintances, and I, have *Gr. set, or placed to them; See Hebrew lent them money and corn: let us now leave off this exaction.

Nehemiah 5 : 11 (LXXEN)

Restore to them, I pray, as at this day, their fields, and their vineyards, and their olive-yards, and their houses, and bring forth to them corn and wine and oil of the money.

Nehemiah 5 : 12 (LXXEN)

And they said, We will restore, and we will not exact of them; we will do thus as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and bound them by oath to do according to this word.

Nehemiah 5 : 13 (LXXEN)

And I shook out my garment, and said, So may God shake out every man who shall not keep to this word, from his house, and from his *q. d. fruits of labour labours, he shall be even thus shaken out, as an outcast and empty. And all the congregation said, Amen, and they praised the Lord: and the people did this thing.

Nehemiah 5 : 14 (LXXEN)

From the day that *i. e., Artaxerxes the king he charged me to be their ruler in the land of Juda, from the twentieth year even to the thirty-second year of Arthasastha, twelve years, I and my brethren ate not provision extorted from them.

Nehemiah 5 : 15 (LXXEN)

But as for the former acts of extortion wherein those who were before me oppressed them, they even took of them their last money, forty didrachms for bread and wine; and the very outcasts of them *Gr. exercise exercised authority over the people: but I did not so, because of the fear of God.

Nehemiah 5 : 16 (LXXEN)

Also in the work of the wall I treated them not with rigor, I bought not land: and all that were gathered together came *Gr. there thither to the work.

Nehemiah 5 : 17 (LXXEN)

And the Jews, to the number of a hundred and fifty men, besides those coming to us from the nations round about, were at my table.

Nehemiah 5 : 18 (LXXEN)

And there came to me for one day one calf, and I had six choice sheep and a goat; and every ten days wine in abundance of all sorts: yet with these I required not the bread of extortion, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.

Nehemiah 5 : 19 (LXXEN)

Remember me, O God, for good, in all that I have done to this people.