Nehemiah 5:8

5:8 I said to them, “To the extent possible we have bought back our fellow Jews ¹  who had been sold to the Gentiles. But now you yourselves want to sell your own countrymen, ²  so that we can then buy them back!” They were utterly silent, and could find nothing to say.

Nehemiah 7:5

7:5 My God placed it on my heart to gather the leaders, ³  the officials, and the ordinary people so they could be enrolled on the basis of genealogy. I found the genealogical records ⁴  of those who had formerly returned. Here is what I found written in that record: ⁵ 

Nehemiah 13:19

13:19 When the evening shadows ⁶  began to fall on the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I ordered ⁷  the doors to be closed. I further directed that they were not to be opened until after the Sabbath. I positioned ⁸  some of my young men at the gates so that no load could enter on the Sabbath day.

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¹ tn Heb “our brothers, the Jews.”

² tn Heb “your brothers.”

³ tn Heb “nobles”; NCV “important men.”

⁴ tn Heb “the book of genealogy.”

⁵ tn Heb “in it”; the referent (the genealogical record) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶ tn Heb “the gates of Jerusalem grew dark.”

⁷ tn Heb “said” (so also in v. 22).

⁸ tn Heb “caused to stand.”