We also lay upon ourselves the obligation to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:
Nehemiah 5:10 - Revised Standard Version Moreover I and my brethren and my servants are lending them money and grain. Let us leave off this interest. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I, my brethren, and my servants are lending them money and grain. Let us stop this forbidden interest! [Exod. 22:25.] American Standard Version (1901) And I likewise, my brethren and my servants, do lend them money and grain. I pray you, let us leave off this usury. Common English Bible I myself, along with my family and my servants, am lending them money and grain. But let’s stop charging this interest! Catholic Public Domain Version Both I and my brothers, with my servants, have lent money and grain to many. Let us agree not to ask for its return. Let us forgive the other money that is owed to us. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Both I and my brethren, and my servants, have lent money and corn to many. Let us all agree not to call for it again: let us forgive the debt that is owing to us. |
We also lay upon ourselves the obligation to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:
Return to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive orchards, and their houses, and the hundredth of money, grain, wine, and oil which you have been exacting of them.”
I took counsel with myself, and I brought charges against the nobles and the officials. I said to them, “You are exacting interest, each from his brother.” And I held a great assembly against them,
So I said, “The thing that you are doing is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God to prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies?
who does not put out his money at interest, and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.
“Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?
lends at interest, and takes increase; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominable things; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon himself.
does not oppress any one, but restores to the debtor his pledge, commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,
does not lend at interest or take any increase, withholds his hand from iniquity, executes true justice between man and man,
Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil upon their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men; but what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience.
So we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We beseech you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
Working together with him, then, we entreat you not to accept the grace of God in vain.
And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release what he has lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor, his brother, because the Lord's release has been proclaimed.