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5 Then a loud outcry arose among the common people and their wives against their fellow-Jews. 2 Some said, “There are many of us, with our sons and our daughters; let us have food, to keep us alive.” 3 Others said, “We are mortgaging our fields and vineyards and houses, to get food in the famine.” 4 Others said, “We have had to borrow money on our fields and vineyards, to pay the king’s tax. 5 Our blood is the blood of our fellows, our children are like their children, and yet we must let them have our sons and daughters to be their slaves. Some of our daughters have been enslaved already, and we have no money to buy them back, for our fields and vineyards are in the hands of others.”
6 When I heard their outcry and complaints, I was very angry; 7 I thought over it, and confronted the authorities and the deputies. I said, “You are all taking interest from your own people!” So I held a great assembly to deal with them. 8 I said, “We have done all we could to buy back our fellow-Jews who had been bought by foreigners. And you would sell your fellows? You would sell them back to us?” They were silent, they had not a word to say. 9 So I went on: “You are doing wrong. Will you not live in awe of God, with an eye to the sneers of our foreign foes? 10 I and my fellows and my retinue have been supporting these people with money and food. Come, let us give up taking interest from them. 11 Come, re11 store to them, this very day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive-yards, and their houses, with the interest on the money and the food and the wine and the oil that you have been taking from them.” 12 They answered, “We will restore it all, we will take no interest from them; we will do as you bid us.” Then, summoning the priests, I made the money-lenders swear they would do as they had promised; 13 and I shook out my arms, saying, “So may God shake out from house and property every man who does not perform his promise! So may he be shaken out and emptied!” “Amen,” said all the community, and they praised the Eternal. 14 The men did as they had promised. Again, ever since I had been appointed governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth to the thirty-second year of king Artaxerxes, for twelve years, I and my fellows never ate the governor’s provisions. 15 The former governors, who had been before me, laid a heavy burden on the people by taking bread and wine from them at the rate of five guineas a day, and their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not; I was in awe of God. 16 Also, I kept at my work on this wall, and my retinue were all there at the work; none of us bought any land. 17 Again, I entertained at my table a hundred and fifty Jews who had come to us from the surrounding foreigners; 18 my daily provision was an ox and six choice sheep, with fowls and--every ten days--wine for all the company. But even so, I made no claim for the governor’s provisions, since the dues lay heavy on the people. 19 O my God, remember to my credit all I have done for this people!