We did this ¹  as a precaution so that no one should blame us in regard to this generous gift we are administering.

Tell them to do good, ¹  to be rich in good deeds, to be generous givers, sharing with others. ² 

But so that we don’t offend them, go to the lake and throw out a hook. Take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth, you will find a four drachma coin. ¹  Take that and give it to them for me and you.”

¹ “If you buy ²  a Hebrew servant, ³  he is to serve you for six years, but in the seventh year he will go out free ⁴  without paying anything. ⁵ 

If you make a sale ¹  to your fellow citizen ²  or buy ³  from your fellow citizen, no one is to wrong his brother. ⁴ 

“‘If your brother becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service. ¹ 

“‘If he consecrates to the Lord a field he has purchased, ¹  which is not part of his own landed property,

Moreover, you must not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; he must surely be put to death.

when your cattle and flocks increase, when you have plenty of silver and gold, and when you have abundance of everything,

They will lend to you but you will not lend to them; they will become the head and you will become the tail!

with three layers of large stones ¹  and one ²  layer of timber. The expense is to be subsidized ³  by the royal treasury. ⁴ 

The rest of the needs for the temple of your God that you may have to supply, ¹  you may do so from the royal treasury.

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.”

I recognized the fact that God had not sent him, for he had spoken the prophecy against me as a hired agent of Tobiah and Sanballat. ¹ 

We accept responsibility for fulfilling ¹  the commands to give ²  one third of a shekel each year for the work of the temple ³  of our God,

“Look, here is the man who would not make ¹  God his protector! He trusted in his great wealth and was confident about his plans to destroy others.” ² 

Do not say to your neighbor, “Go! Return tomorrow and I will give it,” when ¹  you have it with you at the time. ² 

The one who increases his wealth by increasing interest ¹  gathers it for someone who is gracious ²  to the needy.

the deep waters! ¹  Grain from the Shihor region, ²  crops grown near the Nile ³  she receives; ⁴  she is the trade center ⁵  of the nations.

“That is because, from the least important to the most important of them, all of them are greedy for dishonest gain. Prophets and priests alike, all of them practice deceit.