| 5:1 | And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews. |
| 5:2 | For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live. |
| 5:3 | Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth. |
| 5:4 | There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards. |
| 5:5 | Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards. |
| 5:5 | 我們的身體、與我們弟兄的身體一樣、我們的兒女與他們的兒女一般．現在我們將要使兒女作人的僕婢、我們的女兒已有為婢的．我們並無力拯救．因為我們的田地、葡萄園、已經歸了別人。 |
| 5:5 | 我们的身体与我们弟兄的身体一样。我们的儿女与他们的儿女一般。现在我们将要使儿女作人的仆婢，我们的女儿已有为婢的。我们并无力拯救，因为我们的田地，葡萄园已经归了别人。 |
| gen:29:14 | And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month. |
| isa:58:7 | Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? |
| 2ki:4:1 | Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen. |
| mat:18:25 | But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. |
| lev:25:39 | And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant: |
| exo:21:7 | And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do. |
| deu:28:32 | Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand: |
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| 5:6 | And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words. |
| 5:7 | Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them. |
| 5:8 | And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer. |
| 5:9 | Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies? |
| 5:10 | I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury. |
| 5:11 | Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them. |
| 5:12 | Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise. |
| 5:13 | Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people did according to this promise. |
| 5:14 | Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor. |
| 5:15 | But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God. |
| 5:16 | Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants were gathered thither unto the work. |
| 5:17 | Moreover there were at my table an hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, beside those that came unto us from among the heathen that are about us. |
| 5:18 | Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people. |
| 5:19 | Think upon me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people. |
