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5 And there was a great outcry of the people and their wives against their brothers, the Jews.
2 And there were those who said, “Our sons and our daughters, we are many. And let us take grain, so we can eat, and we can live.”
3 And there were those who said, “We are mortgaging our fields and our vineyards and our houses so we can get grain during the famine.”
4 And there were those who said, “We have borrowed silver for the tribute of the king on our fields and our vineyards. 5 And now, our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our sons are as their sons. And behold, we are putting our sons and our daughters into bondage as slaves. There are those even of our daughters who have been put into bondage, and there is nothing to God in our hand, for our fields and our vineyards belong to others.”
6 And it burned me extremely when I heard their outcry and these words. 7 And my heart reigned over me, and I contended with the nobles and with the prefects. And I said to them, “You are lending interest, a man against his brother!” And I put forth a great assembly against them.
8 And I said to them, “We ourselves, according to our ability, have bought back our brothers, the Jews, the ones who were sold to the nations. But even you yourselves are selling your brothers, and they are being bought back by us!” Then they were silent, and they did not find a word.
9 And I said, “This thing that you are doing is not good. Should you not walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies?[fn] 10 Also, even I, my brothers, and my young men are lending against them silver and grain. Please, let us forsake this interest! 11 Please, even today, return to them their fields, their vineyards, their olive orchards, and their houses, and a hundred of the silver and the grain, the new wine, and the oil that you are lending against them.”
12 And they said, “We will return, and we will seek nothing from them. Thus we will do according to what you say.” And I called the priests, and I caused them to swear to do according to this word.
13 Also, I shook out my bosom, and I said, “Thus may God shake out from his house and from his labor every man who does not cause this word to stand. And thus may he be shaken out and emptied.”
And all the assembly said, “Amen!” And they praised Yahweh, and the people did according to this word.
14 Also, from the day that he appointed me to be their governor in the land of Judah, from year 20 even until year 32 of Artaxerxes the king, twelve years, I myself did not eat the bread of the governor, nor did my brothers. 15 But the former governors who were before my face had been heavy on the people, and they took from them bread and wine, after forty silver shekels. Also, their young men had acted dominantly over the people. But I myself did not do thus, from the face of the fear of God. 16 Yes, also I held fast to the work of this wall, and we did not buy a field. And all my young men were gathered there for the work.
17 Now the Jews and the prefects were 150 men at my table, with the ones coming to us from the nations that were around us. 18 And what was made for one day was one bull, six choice sheep, and birds were made for me, and between ten days all kinds of wine in abundance. So with this I did not seek the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy on this people.
19 Remember me, my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.
And I said or perhaps And he said (Hebrew Ketiv).