Discovery BoxNehemiah 4:4 
Context4:4 Hear, O our God, for we are despised! Return their reproach on their own head! Reduce them to plunder in a land of exile!
Nehemiah 5:2
Context5:2 There were those who said, “With our sons and daughters, we are many. We must obtain 1 grain in order to eat and stay alive.”
Nehemiah 9:36
Context9:36 “So today we are slaves! In the very land you gave to our ancestors to eat its fruit and to enjoy 2 its good things – we are slaves!
Nehemiah 10:32
Context10:32 We accept responsibility for fulfilling 3 the commands to give 4 one third of a shekel each year for the work of the temple 5 of our God,
Nehemiah 13:2
Context13:2 for they had not met the Israelites with food 6 and water, but instead had hired Balaam to curse them. (Our God, however, turned the curse into blessing.)
Nehemiah 13:4
Context13:4 But prior to this time, Eliashib the priest, a relative of Tobiah, had been appointed over the storerooms 7 of the temple of our God.
Nehemiah 13:27
Context13:27 Should we then in your case hear that you do all this great evil, thereby being unfaithful to our God by marrying 8 foreign wives?”
1 tn Heb “take” (so also in v. 3).
2 tn The expression “to enjoy” is not included in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
3 tn Heb “cause to stand on us.”
4 tc The MT reads “to give upon us.” However, the term עָלֵינוּ (’alenu, “upon us”) should probably be deleted, following a few medieval Hebrew
5 tn Heb “house” (also in vv. 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39).
6 tn Heb “bread.” The Hebrew term is generic here, however, referring to more than bread alone.
7 tc The translation reads the plural rather than the singular of the MT.
8 tn Heb “give a dwelling to.”
