Nehemiah 1:9

1:9 But if you repent ¹  and obey ²  my commandments and do them, then even if your dispersed people are in the most remote location, ³  I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen for my name to reside.’

Nehemiah 5:8

5:8 I said to them, “To the extent possible we have bought back our fellow Jews ⁴  who had been sold to the Gentiles. But now you yourselves want to sell your own countrymen, ⁵  so that we can then buy them back!” They were utterly silent, and could find nothing to say.

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¹ tn Heb “turn to me.”

² tn Heb “keep.” See the note on the word “obey” in Neh 1:5.

³ tn Heb “at the end of the heavens.”

⁴ tn Heb “our brothers, the Jews.”

⁵ tn Heb “your brothers.”