◄ Nehemiah 5:11 ►
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Good News Translation
Cancel all the debts they owe you--money or grain or wine or olive oil. And give them back their fields, vineyards, olive groves, and houses right now!"

New Revised Standard Version
Restore to them, this very day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive orchards, and their houses, and the interest on money, grain, wine, and oil that you have been exacting from them.”

Contemporary English Version
Now give back the fields, vineyards, olive orchards, and houses you have taken and also the interest you have been paid."

New American Bible
Return to them this very day their fields, vineyards, olive groves, and houses, together with the interest on the money, the grain, the wine, and the oil that you have lent them.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Restore ye to them this day their fields, and their vineyards, and their oliveyards, and their houses: and the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, which you were wont to exact of them, give it rather for them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Restore ye to them this day their fields, and their vineyards, and their oliveyards, and their houses: and the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, which you were wont to exact of them, give it rather for them.

Restore

Leviticus 6:4,5 Being convicted of the offence, he shall restore . . .

1 Samuel 12:3 Speak of me before the Lord, and before his anointed, whether I have taken any man's ox, or ass: if I have wronged any man, if I have oppressed any man, if I have taken a bribe at any man's hand: and I will despise it this day, and will restore it to you.

2 Samuel 12:6 He shall restore the ewe fourfold, because he did this thing, and had no pity.

Isaiah 58:6 Is not this rather the fast that I have chosen? loose the bands of wickedness, undo the bundles that oppress, let them that are broken go free, and break asunder every burden.

Luke 3:8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of penance: and do not begin to say, We have Abraham for our father. For I say unto you that God is able of these stones, to raise up children to Abraham.

their lands

Nehemiah 5:3,4 And there were some that said: Let us mortgage our lands, and our vineyards, and our houses, and let us take corn because of the famine. . . .

12 per cent. Another author states that this is the lowest rate of interest in Syria: the usual rate is

20; and it is sometimes as high as

30 per cent.)

Context
Nehemiah Defends the Oppressed
…10Both 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. 11Restore ye to them this day their fields, and their vineyards, and their oliveyards, and their houses: and the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, which you were wont to exact of them, give it rather for them.12And they said: We will restore, and we will require nothing of them: and we will do as thou sayest. And I called the priests and took an oath of them, to do according to what I had said.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:11
Houses full of riches, which thou didst not set up, cisterns which thou didst not dig, vineyards and oliveyards, which thou didst not plant,

Nehemiah 5:10
Both 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.

Nehemiah 5:12
And they said: We will restore, and we will require nothing of them: and we will do as thou sayest. And I called the priests and took an oath of them, to do according to what I had said.

Nehemiah 5:10
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