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Nehemiah 5:8-19

And I said
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unto them, We after our ability
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have redeemed
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our brethren
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the Jews
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which were sold
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unto the heathen
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and will ye even sell
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your brethren
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or shall they be sold
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unto us? Then held they their peace
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and found
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nothing
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[to answer].
Also I said
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It [is] not good
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that
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ye do
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ought ye not to walk
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in the fear
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of our God
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because of the reproach
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of the heathen
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our enemies
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I likewise, [and] my brethren
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and my servants
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might exact
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of them money
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and corn
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I pray you, let us leave off
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this usury
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Restore
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I pray you, to them, even this day
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their lands
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their vineyards
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their oliveyards
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and their houses
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also the hundredth
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[part] of the money
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and of the corn
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the wine
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and the oil
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that ye exact
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of them.
Then said
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they, We will restore
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[them], and will require
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nothing of them; so will we do
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as thou sayest
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Then I called
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the priests
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and took an oath
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of them, that they should do
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according to this promise
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Also I shook
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my lap
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and said
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So God
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shake out
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every man
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from his house
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and from his labour
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that performeth
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not this promise
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even thus be he shaken out
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and emptied
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And all the congregation
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said
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Amen
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and praised
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the LORD
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And the people
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did
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according to this promise
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{emptied: Heb. empty, or, void}
Moreover from the time
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that I was appointed
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to be their governor
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in the land
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of Judah
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from the twentieth
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year
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even unto the two
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and thirtieth
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year
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of Artaxerxes
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the king
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[that is], twelve
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years
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I and my brethren
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have not eaten
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the bread
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of the governor
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But the former
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governors
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that [had been] before
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me were chargeable
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unto the people
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and had taken
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of them bread
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and wine
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beside
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forty
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shekels
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of silver
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yea, even
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their servants
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bare rule
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over the people
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but so did
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not I, because
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of the fear
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of God
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Yea, also I continued
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in the work
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of this wall
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neither bought
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we any land
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and all my servants
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[were] gathered
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thither unto the work
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Moreover [there were] at my table
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an hundred
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and fifty
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of the Jews
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and rulers
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beside those that came
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unto us from among the heathen
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that [are] about us
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Now [that] which was prepared
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[for me] daily
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[was] one
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ox
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[and] six
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choice
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sheep
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also fowls
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were prepared
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for me, and once in ten
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days
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store
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of all sorts of wine
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yet for all
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this required
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not I the bread
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of the governor
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because the bondage
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was heavy
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upon this people
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Think
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upon me, my God
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for good
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[according] to all that I have done
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for this people
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